Taronga Zoo Taronga Zoo Species List

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Common waterbuck are now thriving at Orana Wildlife Park with the male imported from Werribee in 2019 having sired two calves to date and their population now numbering nine individuals.

They’re also held at Auckland Zoo, but Hamilton Zoo regrettably decided to phase them out. Bulls can be aggressive so they don’t always make the best species for an integrated Savannah.

It’d be great to see more exchanges between Australia and New Zealand in the future.

Werribee have done well with breeding Waterbuck over the years.They’re kept in the waterhole part of the bus tour alongside Blackbuck, Ostrich and they also had some Plains Zebra in there in the past. I’ve been lucky enough to see them in the water too before.

It’d be great to see some other open range zoos within our region get on board with them.