Peel Zoo Peel Zoo On Show Species List, July 2016

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The following is a full list of species held on show at Peel Zoo on my visit on the 21st of July 2016. I will be uploading pictures to the Peel Zoo Gallery and posting a review of this zoo in my trip thread: http://www.zoochat.com/24/trip-australia-june-july-2016-a-449389/.
Though there is a species list on the zoo's website, it is not entirely accurate.


Birds:

Blue-and-gold Macaw
Laughing Kookaburra
Emu
Domestic Duck
Bush Thick-knee
Gang-gang Cockatoo
Eclectus Parrot
Red-tailed Black-cockatoo
Plum-headed Parakeet
Elegant Parrot
Rainbow Lorikeet (lutino morph)
Scarlet-chested Parrot
Yellow Turquoisine Parrot
Golden-shouldered Parrot
Red-crowned Kakariki
Yellow-crowned Kakariki
Crested Pigeon
Jacobin Pigeon
Port Lincoln Ringneck Parrot
Bar-shouldered Dove
Mallee Ringneck
Bourke’s Parrot
Torresian Imperial-pigeon
Green-winged Pigeon (Emerald Dove)
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Red-rumped Parrot
Nepal Kalij Pheasant
Lady Amherst’s Pheasant
Swinhoe’s Pheasant
Silver Pheasant
Dusky Lory
Hybrid Galah x Corella
Rainbow Lorikeet
Little Corella
Galah
Red-capped Parrot
Western Rosella
Eastern Rosella
Crimson Rosella
Yellow Rosella
Regent Parrot
Cockatiel
Moustached Parrot
Scaly-breasted Lorikeet
Budgerigar
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Australian King Parrot
Lovebird (blue morph)
Sun Conure
Alexandrine Parakeet
Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo
Spotted Dove
Barbary Dove
Musk Lorikeet
Princess Parrot
Zebra Finch
Japanese Quail
King Quail
Java Sparrow
African Firefinch
Star Finch
Superb Parrot
Long-billed Corella
Domestic (Sebastopol) Goose
Masked Owl
Southern Boobook Owl
Sooty Owl
Australian Kestrel
Barking Owl
Barn Owl
Grey Butcherbird
Chicken
Guineafowl
Peafowl
Gouldian Finch
Australian Wood Duck
Pacific Black Duck
Chinese Goose
Yellow-billed Spoonbill
Turkey

Total: 80 species


Mammals:

Common Brushtail Possum
Common Ringtail Possum
Ferret
Rabbit
Guinea Pig
Northern Quoll
Spotted-tailed Quoll
Eastern Quoll
Squirrel Glider
Northern Golden Brushtail Possum
Long-nosed Potoroo
Black-footed Tree-rat
Rufous Bettong
Quokka
Southern Koala
Woylie
Western Grey Kangaroo
Sheep
Fallow Deer
Red Deer
Alpaca
Short-beaked Echidna
Common Wombat
Tasmanian Devil
Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat
Dingo
Common Wombat
Woylie
Swamp Wallaby
Red-necked Wallaby
Red Kangaroo
Bengal Cat

Total: 32 species


Reptiles:

Eastern Water Dragon
Eastern Blue-tongued Skink
Frilled-neck Lizard
Western Blue-tongued Skink
Oblong Turtle
King Skink

Total: 6 species


Overall Total: 118 species
 
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they have quite a few exotic finches and parakeets (especially Psittacula), don't they.

And Bengal cat...
 
Chlidonias said:
they have quite a few exotic finches and parakeets (especially Psittacula), don't they.
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As I understand it the zoo was built as a birdpark, but went broke before it opened. Thus the large number of aviaries, many of which are now used for mammals (for instance a large walk through aviary is subdivided into devil pens.)
 
MRJ said:
As I understand it the zoo was built as a birdpark, but went broke before it opened. Thus the large number of aviaries, many of which are now used for mammals (for instance a large walk through aviary is subdivided into devil pens.)
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That's interesting, and would explain why so many enclosures looked like aviaries.
 
I remember the (now closed) Buxton Zoo in Victoria used to display Bengal Cats. I guess they could be a good money spinner/extra revenue stream if they breed them, as they're not cheap cats to buy.
 
Any thoughts as to what the zoo may mean by 'Northern Golden Brushtail Possum'?
From a curled up ball in a log, this looked to be a golden morph of a Common Brushtail, however aren't those from the Tasmanian subspecies?
 
LaughingDove said:
Any thoughts as to what the zoo may mean by 'Northern Golden Brushtail Possum'?
From a curled up ball in a log, this looked to be a golden morph of a Common Brushtail, however aren't those from the Tasmanian subspecies?
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they can be from any subspecies, they are just leucistic (or xanthistic). They seem most common in Tasmania but that may just be because there are fewer predators there. I'd say most in zoos would be Tasmanian just because most are probably related (from a few zoos), but that wouldn't preclude an individual found elsewhere being in any zoo.

Precise answer: I don't know about this individual, but not all "golden" possums are Tasmanian.
 
for what it is worth, the zoo's website lists this as "Northern Golden Brushtail Possum (Goldie) Trichosurus arnhemensis"
 
Thanks for the replies, Chli. It would certainly be interesting if it was genuinely Trichosurus arnhemensis.
 
LaughingDove said:
Thanks for the replies, Chli. It would certainly be interesting if it was genuinely Trichosurus arnhemensis.
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after some googling, there's a video of Goldie here - https://www.facebook.com/peel.zoo/videos/vb.193241090701946/10150100034583440/?type=2&theater - which shows the brush tail well (at the one minute mark, near the end of the video).

One of the distinguishing features of arnhemensis (I have just found out) is that they don't have a brush tail but rather a more slender tail almost like a ringtail possum. There's a very clear photo of a young animal here but you can see it on other photos and videos too - http://www.marsupialsociety.org/images/nt_poss_5.jpg

So I think Goldie is just a Tasmanian brushtail like others in zoos.
 
Chlidonias said:
after some googling, there's a video of Goldie here - https://www.facebook.com/peel.zoo/videos/vb.193241090701946/10150100034583440/?type=2&theater - which shows the brush tail well (at the one minute mark, near the end of the video).

One of the distinguishing features of arnhemensis (I have just found out) is that they don't have a brush tail but rather a more slender tail almost like a ringtail possum. There's a very clear photo of a young animal here but you can see it on other photos and videos too - http://www.marsupialsociety.org/images/nt_poss_5.jpg

So I think Goldie is just a Tasmanian brushtail like others in zoos.
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Thanks very much for finding all that out, Chli.

Odd that they would call it an arnhemensis when it's not.
 
LaughingDove said:
Thanks very much for finding all that out, Chli.

Odd that they would call it an arnhemensis when it's not.
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after seeing the level of effort they put into their signage and educating their visitors... I would say not odd at all.
 
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