Australia Zoo has a big baby on the way!
15 May 2012Wooo-hoo! The Zoo Crew has some wonderful news to share with the world, are you ready? Australia Zoo is set to welcome a big baby into the world, a baby rhino that is! Inyeti, one of our gorgeous 2000kg rhinos is expecting her first calf to...
Australia Zoo Tigers - Fit, healthy and ready to play!
18 April 2012Ever wondered what it takes to keep a tiger healthy? Well, this week we visited the Australia Zoo Tiger Temple to see firsthand what happens during a big cat health check. We were lucky to witness Australia Zoo head of tigers Giles Clark, along...
Happy first birthday Savannah!
13 April 2012"Happy birthday to you, you live in a zoo, you look like a rhino aaaand... you smell like one too!" Our gorgeous little Savannah the southern white rhino had her first birthday yesterday and crikey did she celebrate in style, being treated to a...
A dam fine way to cool down at Australia Zoo
6 April 2012Elephants take early morning swim to beat the heat Though summer has officially ended, recent warm temperatures on the Sunshine Coast caused Australia Zoo's three Asian elephants to take novel measures to cool down! During today's early morning...
Rian the koala returns home to North Stradbroke Island
17 March 2012Almost six months after suffering horrific burns in a bushfire, Rian the koala has been released back into the wild. The tiny marsupial was rescued by the Australia Zoo Rescue Unit from high up in a tree on North Stradbroke Island in October last...
9 little joeys and counting!
10 March 2012Crikey it's that time of the year again.... Time to start seeing little baby koalas! The breeding season for koalas in Queensland runs from September to March with reports of joeys being born as late as April. Breeding for koalas is not quite what...
Continued deforestation moves the IUCN to list the Sumatran Elephant as critically endangered
3 March 2012As Asian Elephants continue to face threats in the wild, their population has dwindled to the point that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has listed the Sumatran sub-species of Asian Elephant as critically endangered. There...
Territorial Tigers
11 February 2012At Australia Zoo we have ten tigers who call the tiger temple home and given that tigers prefer a solitary lifestyle, you can easily imagine that each tiger wants to stake his or her claim over a particular enclosure! Their solitary nature in the...
Getting to Know Sally the Giraffe
2 February 2012Its been a great summer so far for Africa with our newest paddock member Sally the giraffe having made her public debut a week or so before Christmas. Sally came from Monarto Zoo in South Australia and spent a few months in a quiet area off display...
Bashii's playful adventure with Santa
18 December 2011Crikey! What an exciting month's its been for big boy Bashii, one of six Sumatran tigers at Australia Zoo, when none other than Santa Claus stopped by to deliver some early Christmas presents to the Tiger Temple. Earlier in the month, Bashii...
