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That Aussie Guy

That Aussie Guy

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Ballarat Wildlife Park - 11/10/2024

My first visit to Ballarat Wildlife Park - a small but interesting wildlife park with some reptile species you can't see anywhere else in Australia! The Uracoan rattlesnake was a personal favourite, and there were a few species I wasn't able to identify, seen in the pictures below.

Unknown Fish Species 1
Unknown Fish Species 1 - ZooChat

Unknown Fish Species 2
Unknown Fish Species 2 - ZooChat

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Mammals

1. Alpaca
2. Common Wombat
3. Dingo
4. Goodfellow’s Tree Kangaroo
5. Hybrid Tiger
6. Kangaroo Island Kangaroo
7. Koala
8. Meerkat
9. Quokka
10. Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat
11. Spot-Tailed Quoll
12. Tasmanian Devil

Birds

1. Eclectus Parrot
2. Emu
3. Little Penguin
4. Nankeen Kestrel
5. Red-Tailed Black Cockatoo
6. Southern Cassowary
7. Wedge-Tailed Eagle

Reptiles

1. Aldabra Giant Tortoise
2. Alligator Snapping Turtle
3. American Alligator
4. Broad-Headed Snake
5. Brown Tree Snake
6. Burmese Brown Tortoise
7. Burmese Python
8. Coastal Taipan
9. Common Snapping Turtle
10. Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake
11. Eastern Long-Necked Turtle
12. Freshwater Crocodile
13. Frill-Necked Lizard
14. Indo-Chinese Spitting Cobra
15. Inland Taipan
16. Kimberly Rock Monitor
17. Komodo Dragon
18. Lace Monitor
19. Land Mullet
20. Mangrove Monitor
21. Merten’s Water Monitor
22. Monocled Cobra
23. Mulga Snake
24. Murray River Turtle
25. Pig-Nosed Turtle
26. Red-Tailed Boa Constrictor
27. Reticulated Python
28. Rhinoceros Iguana
29. Saltwater Crocodile
30. Uracoan Rattlesnake

Amphibians

1. Blue Poison-Frog
2. Dyeing Poison-Frog
3. Growling Grass Frog
4. Southern Corroboree Frog

Fish

1. Murray Cod
2. Unknown Fish species?
3. Unknown Fish species?
 
That Aussie Guy said:
Ballarat Wildlife Park - 11/10/2024

My first visit to Ballarat Wildlife Park - a small but interesting wildlife park with some reptile species you can't see anywhere else in Australia! The Uracoan rattlesnake was a personal favourite, and there were a few species I wasn't able to identify, seen in the pictures below.

Unknown Fish Species 1
Unknown Fish Species 1 - ZooChat

Unknown Fish Species 2
Unknown Fish Species 2 - ZooChat

Unsigned

Mammals

1. Alpaca
2. Common Wombat
3. Dingo
4. Goodfellow’s Tree Kangaroo
5. Hybrid Tiger
6. Kangaroo Island Kangaroo
7. Koala
8. Meerkat
9. Quokka
10. Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat
11. Spot-Tailed Quoll
12. Tasmanian Devil

Birds

1. Eclectus Parrot
2. Emu
3. Little Penguin
4. Nankeen Kestrel
5. Red-Tailed Black Cockatoo
6. Southern Cassowary
7. Wedge-Tailed Eagle

Reptiles

1. Aldabra Giant Tortoise
2. Alligator Snapping Turtle
3. American Alligator
4. Broad-Headed Snake
5. Brown Tree Snake
6. Burmese Brown Tortoise
7. Burmese Python
8. Coastal Taipan
9. Common Snapping Turtle
10. Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake
11. Eastern Long-Necked Turtle
12. Freshwater Crocodile
13. Frill-Necked Lizard
14. Indo-Chinese Spitting Cobra
15. Inland Taipan
16. Kimberly Rock Monitor
17. Komodo Dragon
18. Lace Monitor
19. Land Mullet
20. Mangrove Monitor
21. Merten’s Water Monitor
22. Monocled Cobra
23. Mulga Snake
24. Murray River Turtle
25. Pig-Nosed Turtle
26. Red-Tailed Boa Constrictor
27. Reticulated Python
28. Rhinoceros Iguana
29. Saltwater Crocodile
30. Uracoan Rattlesnake

Amphibians

1. Blue Poison-Frog
2. Dyeing Poison-Frog
3. Growling Grass Frog
4. Southern Corroboree Frog

Fish

1. Murray Cod
2. Unknown Fish species?
3. Unknown Fish species?
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Are there really only 7 bird species? That seems very low, though I suppose the great reptile collection sort of makes up for it.
 
Osedax said:
Are there really only 7 bird species? That seems very low, though I suppose the great reptile collection sort of makes up for it.
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Indeed there are. I did find the species list rather small, but the reptile house and collection is certainly impressive for a smaller park. The Nankeen Kestrel technically wasn't even on display - I just happened to see it at the top of its aviary on the other side of a fence only staff were allowed past.
 
Thanks for the list! The zoo's website mentions "over 100 free-roaming kangaroos" and "more than 35 koalas" and those are impressive numbers. One thing that surprised me was the price, as it's $40 for a walk-up adult ticket. That seems an awful lot for a mid-sized zoo with around 55 species, but perhaps that's not out of the ordinary for an Australian zoological establishment.
 
snowleopard said:
Thanks for the list! The zoo's website mentions "over 100 free-roaming kangaroos" and "more than 35 koalas" and those are impressive numbers. One thing that surprised me was the price, as it's $40 for a walk-up adult ticket. That seems an awful lot for a mid-sized zoo with around 55 species, but perhaps that's not out of the ordinary for an Australian zoological establishment.
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It certainly wasn't the cheapest park out there (nearly the double the price of Gorge Wildlife Park, which is also privately owned, has nearly 200 species, and is much larger spatially), but there were definitely vast numbers of really friendly kangaroos roaming around.

There were loads of koalas too (I didn't count), but whilst it may excite other visitors, seeing 35 Southern koalas (not a single Northern koala from what I saw) scattered across half a dozen enclosures was not something I particularly focussed on. What I did like however was being there at the right time to hear a large male bellowing from only a couple metres away, which was a very cool experience.
 
snowleopard said:
Thanks for the list! The zoo's website mentions "over 100 free-roaming kangaroos" and "more than 35 koalas" and those are impressive numbers. One thing that surprised me was the price, as it's $40 for a walk-up adult ticket. That seems an awful lot for a mid-sized zoo with around 55 species, but perhaps that's not out of the ordinary for an Australian zoological establishment.
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That Aussie Guy said:
It certainly wasn't the cheapest park out there (nearly the double the price of Gorge Wildlife Park, which is also privately owned, has nearly 200 species, and is much larger spatially), but there were definitely vast numbers of really friendly kangaroos roaming around.

There were loads of koalas too (I didn't count), but whilst it may excite other visitors, seeing 35 Southern koalas (not a single Northern koala from what I saw) scattered across half a dozen enclosures was not something I particularly focussed on. What I did like however was being there at the right time to hear a large male bellowing from only a couple metres away, which was a very cool experience.
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Also, the Indochinese Spitting Cobra, Burmese Brown Tortoise, Uroacan Rattlesnake and Common Snapping Turtle are not in any other Australian zoos, and the poison dart frogs are very rare.
 
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