Australia House interior

This is the inside of the LA Zoo\'s Australia House which reopened in spring 2015 after being closed for many years.

It was built in the 1980s as the koala house and once housed the koalas, echidnas, and brush-tailed bettongs. When the zoo\'s koalas died the house was closed. New koalas came in the early 2000s and are now housed outside. This building was used for temporary exhibits of animatronic dinosaurs (2005?) and spiders (2007) and was closed after that.

There are two yards separated by a short fence. Brush tailed bettongs and echidnas live in the yard closest and the southern hairy-nosed wombat lives in the farther yard. Sugar gliders can use the whole space.

So I guess, this is the only"true"Nocturnal Animal House in california ? I guess, in the Kiwi-House at San Diego Zoo only kiwis are kept in it ?

Are there more species in the Australia House at L.A. Zoo than this four ?

Bib Fortuna said:

So I guess, this is the only"true"Nocturnal Animal House in california ? I guess, in the Kiwi-House at San Diego Zoo only kiwis are kept in it ?

Are there more species in the Australia House at L.A. Zoo than this four ?

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That same species line-up is still what is in the Australia house at the LA Zoo. To my knowledge this is the only AZA zoo in California (or on the whole west coast of the U.S. for that matter) that has a nocturnal exhibit as of May 2016.

The primate exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo has a nocturnal hall that held aye-ayes for many years, but they sent the aye-ayes away a few years ago. I don't know if that space is currently being used as exhibit space.

San Diego announced that they were building a nocturnal hall as part of Africa Rocks, but someone told me recently that those plans were eliminated. They have aye-ayes now that were supposed to go in that nocturnal exhibit, so I'm not sure what is going on there.

The San Francisco Aye-Aye's are now at Frankfurt Zoo.

Good News San Diego will hopefully not realise a Nocturnal Hall in Africa Rocks-I would be afraid they would keep there Aardvarks and Aardwolfs...so who needs Nocturnal Houses in Southern California ?

Bib Fortuna said:

...so who needs Nocturnal Houses in Southern California ?

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Presumably the aye-ayes.

Not the Aye-Aye's-only the people want to see them active...no animal needs a Nocturnal House...

Does anybody know when the Echidna were moved outside?

And are the other species still present? When I visited yesterday I could only see signage for the Wombats.

@Cat-Man Wombats are all there are to see now in the Australia House. The woylies, echidna, and sugar gliders are no longer present. The gliders have all gone to another zoo. There were inside echidnas and outside echidnas. Unless there are echidnas off-exhibit inside somewhere (possible), they are all outside echidnas now.

Thanks for clarifying. This is a great exhibit!