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Please see below list of animals in the Nocturnal House.


Reptiles and invertebrates:

Thorny Devil

Military Dragon

Spinifex Legless Lizard

Desert Skink

Cane Grass Dragon

Central Netted Dragon

Panther Skink

Golden Orb Spider

Pie-dish Beetle

Wolf Spider

Barking Spider

Scorpion

Woma

Mulga Snake

Stimson’s Python

Centralian Carpet Python

Spiny-tailed Gecko

Sand Plain Gecko

Rough Knob-tailed Gecko

Pygmy Mulga Monitor

Desert Death Adder

Desert Rainbow Skink

Acacia Stick Insect

Lined Earless Dragon

Toad Hopper

Hooded Scaly-foot

Blistered Pyrgomorph

Bynoe’s Gecko


Mammals and birds:

Bilby

Burrowing bettong

Golden bandicoot

Mala

Tawny Frogmouth

Curlew

Ghost Bat

Greater Stick Nest Rat

Red tailed phascogale

Spinifex hopping mouse

Western Quoll

Plains mouse
 
According to the Park's Facebook page, a 6-year old female arrived from Perth (retired from breeding programme) last March and has gone on display in the Woodlands side of the nocturnal house. I guess this is a re-purposed exhibit, presumably the Mulga Snake one, as that was the largest one on that side (although this species is still on Jakub's list).
 
Around thirty Red-tailed Phascogales bred at the Alice Springs Desert Park have been released into the Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary.

Full story: Native threatened species roams Central Australian bush for the first time in decades

For the first time in decades the red-tailed phascogale, a threatened species, is roaming the central Australian bush after about 30 were released at Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary's remote property this week.

The population of the evasive, nocturnal critters were bred over the last year at the Alice Springs Desert Park, after a small group were taken from the wild in Western Australia.

Joe Schofield, Australian Wildlife Conservancy's regional operations manager, said the reproduction program in Alice Springs had been a success, and it was a good time to move the animals considering their delicate breeding cycle.

"They breed once a year and you have to get the timing right within their breeding cycle, the males breed with the females and then they die pretty soon afterwards," Mr Schofield said.

"That's their one purpose in life it seems … once that's happened it's a good time to move the animals."

After the animals were flown from Alice Springs to Newhaven, about 300 kilometres north-west of the town, Mr Schofield said they were taken to a quiet area to relax for a while.

"[They were then] checked by the ecologist, [and then] carefully placed in custom-made boxes installed in the tree," he said.

The population is microchipped and will be tracked throughout their life.

"We will have a program in place to try and monitor how they go to assess the survivorship," Mr Schofield said.
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An additional 25 (14.11) Red-tailed Phascogales from Alice Springs Desert Park have been released into Newhaven. A whopping 115 phascogales have been released since 2020. From their Fb page:
Alice Springs Desert Park has been working with Australian Wildlife Conservacy to breed another 25 Red-tailed Phascogales, which now have a new home at Newhaven! 11 females and 14 males were recently translocated to Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary from the captive breeding program at Alice Springs Desert Park. A total of 115 have now been reintroduced since 2020 - and previous cohorts are doing well! The phascogales will be under the care of Australian Wildlife Conservancy where they will be monitored via camera traps, regular nest box checks and radio collars (fitted to 9 individuals to monitor survivorship, dispersal patterns and shelter selection).
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16 critically endangered Central Rock-Rats Zyzomys pedunculatus have been collected from the wild as the founders for a new captive population at the Alice Springs Desert Park. The rats were collected as part of a translocation with most individuals moving to a fenced sanctuary along with the16 that were retained for the park: Central Rock-rat, Australia’s most endangered mammal, airlifted to safe refuge
 
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