Perth Zoo Perth Zoo On Show Species List, July 2016

LaughingDove

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This is a list of species held on show at Perth Zoo on the 6th of July 2016. I will be uploading pictures to the Perth Zoo Gallery and also posting a review of the zoo in my trip thread: http://www.zoochat.com/24/trip-australia-june-july-2016-a-449389/

Scientific names for any species can be provided on request.

Mammals:

Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur
Red-tailed Phascogale
Western Ringtail Possum
Fat-tailed Dunnart
Brush-tailed Bettong
Dibbler
Ghost Bat
Northern Quoll
Long-nosed Potoroo
Short-eared Rock-wallaby
Common Brushtail Possum
Western Quoll
Feathertail Glider
Australian Water Rat
Bilby
Bolivian Squirrel Monkey
South American Coati
Golden Lion Tamarin
Meerkat
Grant’s Zebra
Rothschild’s Giraffe
Fennec Fox
Spotted Hyaena
African Hunting Dog
Southern White Rhino
African Lion
Hamadryas Baboon
Goodfellow’s Tree Kangaroo
White-cheeked Gibbon
Dingo
Short-beaked Echidna
Red Kangaroo
Western Grey Kangaroo
Tammar Wallaby
Western Brush-wallaby
Quokka
Numbat
Tasmanian Devil
Koala
Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat
Cotton-top Tamarin
Pygmy Marmoset
Emperor Tamarin
Black-capped Capuchin
Ring-tailed Lemur
Sumatran Orangutan
Javan Gibbon
Asian Elephant
Sun Bear
Asian Small-clawed Otter
Red Panda
Sumatran Tiger

Total: 52 species


Birds:

Boobook Owl
Tawny Frogmouth
Guinea Fowl
Southern Cassowary
Bridled Tern
Little Blue Penguin
Brolga
Glossy Ibis
Green Pygmy-goose
Australasian Shoveller
Black Swan
Eastern Great Egret
Little Pied Cormorant
Plumed Whistling Duck
Pied Heron
Radjah Shelduck
Freckled Duck
Yellow-billed Spoonbill
Black-winged Stilt
Black-necked Stork
Blue-billed Duck
Royal Spoonbill
Purple-crowned Lorikeet
Splendid Fairy-wren
Elegant Parrot
Forest Red-tailed Black-cockatoo
Galah
Rufous Whistler
Brush Bronzewing
Red-capped Parrot
Bush Stone-curlew
Emu
Channel-billed Cuckoo
Eclectus Parrot
Golden Pheasant
Satin Bowerbird
Mandarin Duck
Wonga Pigeon

Total: 38 species


Reptiles:

Olive Python
Jungle Python
Rough-scaled Python
Rough-throated Leaf-tailed Gecko
Banded Knob-tailed Gecko
Stimson’s Python
Galapagos Tortoise
Madagascar Tree Python
Dampier Peninsula Monitor
Pygmy Python
South-west Carpet Python
Radiated Tortoise
Bell’s Hingeback Tortoise
Corn Snake
Tiger Snake
Shingleback Skink
Western Blue-tongue Skink
Western Spiny-tailed Skink
Perentie
Veiled Chameleon
Common Death Adder
Dugite
Black-headed Python
Woma
Olive Python
Reticulated Python
Western Swamp Tortoise
Freshwater Crocodile
Merten’s Water Monitor
Pink-eared Turtle
Pig-nosed Turtle
Saltwater Crocodile
Red-eared Slider
Komodo Dragon

Total: 34 species


Amphibians:

Cane Toad
Green Tree Frog
Splendid Tree Frog
White-lipped Tree Frog

Total: 4 species


Fish:

Silver Perch
Western Minnow
Western Pygmy Perch
Barramundi
Archerfish
Western Rainbowfish
Spotted Scat
Koi

Total: 8 species


Invertebrates:

Spiny Leaf Insect
Australian Tarantula
Hairy Marron

Total: 3 species


Overall Total: 139 species
 
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Thanks once again for posting all of these on-show species lists...it makes for fascinating reading. I'm a bit stunned at the low numbers for Perth Zoo, especially with its bird collection. With zoos like Perth and Adelaide only having fairly small numbers of species in comparison to the mega zoos of North America and Europe one could present the argument that the country of Australia (6th biggest in the world) has only two really large zoos: Taronga and Melbourne. The same argument could be made for Canada (2nd largest nation) with its zoos of Toronto and Calgary.
 
snowleopard said:
Thanks once again for posting all of these on-show species lists...it makes for fascinating reading. I'm a bit stunned at the low numbers for Perth Zoo, especially with its bird collection. With zoos like Perth and Adelaide only having fairly small numbers of species in comparison to the mega zoos of North America and Europe one could present the argument that the country of Australia (6th biggest in the world) has only two really large zoos: Taronga and Melbourne. The same argument could be made for Canada (2nd largest nation) with its zoos of Toronto and Calgary.
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I was actually quite surprised at how low the total for Perth Zoo was, as I was sure it would come out to over 200 since Caversham Wildlife Park came up to 184 and Perth Zoo is much bigger. I think the reason why Perth's total is much smaller than Caversham is because it doesn't have little enclosures and bird aviaries and things dotted about, and it has more big ABCs like zebras, tigers, lions, elephants, giraffes, and that sort of thing which takes up a lot of space. It is an absolutely excellent zoo though, and much more well done than Caversham in terms of theming, quality of exhibits and general feel.

Even so, 200 species isn't so many for one of the biggest zoos in the country and by far WA's main zoo. Though with Australia, and WA in particular, you have to consider the population, and Australia only has about 23 million people and only about 2.5 million in the whole of WA, of which fewer than 2 million are in Perth.
 
Perth Zoo used to have an extensive bird collection including (for Australia) some real exotic rarities. The area that is now the Amazon exhibit used to be their main bird display.
 
snowleopard said:
Thanks once again for posting all of these on-show species lists...it makes for fascinating reading. I'm a bit stunned at the low numbers for Perth Zoo, especially with its bird collection. With zoos like Perth and Adelaide only having fairly small numbers of species in comparison to the mega zoos of North America and Europe one could present the argument that the country of Australia (6th biggest in the world) has only two really large zoos: Taronga and Melbourne. The same argument could be made for Canada (2nd largest nation) with its zoos of Toronto and Calgary.
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I don't know if you could really say that any Australian zoos are "really large" in an international sense - Taronga, for example, actually has fewer exotic mammals on display than Adelaide, and I suspect fewer species of birds as well. Melbourne I think would be the closest - but even that falls down because it has fewer native mammals than the others (no nocturnal house). Some of the state-run zoos considered as a whole would probably equal some of the really big zoos overseas (i.e. Taronga + WPZ, Melbourne + Werribee + Healesville, Adelaide + Monarto).

I say all the above from reading only - I've not been overseas - but it really does seem like the Really Big Zoos like Bronx and San Diego and London and so forth would absolutely dwarf anything we have here.
 
LaughingDove said:
I don't think so. I don't think I would have missed them, but where would they be?
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Correct no rock wallabies currently at Perth. Their former exhibit is in the Australian Fauna section.
 
They might be kept behind the scenes.If I'm not mistaken I read about breeding success on their facebook page recently.
 
they have one Short-eared Rock Wallaby in the nocturnal house, and there should be two Black-flanked (Black-footed) Rock Wallabies in the Discovery Centre which is off-show to the general visitors (it's an education centre for school groups and the like).
 
was there no owlet-nightjar in the nocturnal house now? I think Australia may well be the only place to see owlet-nightjars in a zoo. Zootierliste doesn't even seem to list any historical records, and I doubt there are any species in American zoos either.
 
Chlidonias said:
was there no owlet-nightjar in the nocturnal house now? I think Australia may well be the only place to see owlet-nightjars in a zoo. Zootierliste doesn't even seem to list any historical records, and I doubt there are any species in American zoos either.
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Nope. I was actually looking out for them because I knew they should have been there, so I wouldn't have missed them unless they were unsigned and hiding.
 
No sun conures, blue and gold macaws and amazons??? Thought they would have been part of the new Amazon display.
As MRJ mentioned Perth used to have a pretty extensive bird collection, mostly native. The old bird keepers must have been gutted when they ripped down the aviaries. Was always a nice part of the zoo.
 
tetrapod said:
No sun conures, blue and gold macaws and amazons??? Thought they would have been part of the new Amazon display.
As MRJ mentioned Perth used to have a pretty extensive bird collection, mostly native. The old bird keepers must have been gutted when they ripped down the aviaries. Was always a nice part of the zoo.
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Nope, despite the fact that the sign for the Amazonia exhibit has a picture of a conure on it!
 
They were still there a year ago.

The aviaries had had internal dividing walls removed to make larger enclosures, but were still the same externally as when I was there in 1987, however they now had Tamarins in one of the enclosures instead, and the Macaws were in another. The Amazons were in a smaller enclosure and the Sun Conures were off display in an aviary around the corner.

:p

Hix
 
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