Werribee Open Range Zoo Werribee Open Range Zoo News 2022

[Jambo]

Major floods in werribee currently with the Werribee River at record levels. This river flows right thru the middle of the zoo, so i expect the lower savanah will have had all animals evacuated, the buses almost certainly wouldn't be able to cross the bridge at the moment ....

The lower savannah will definitely have been evacuated. I'm not sure about some of the larger animals though like the giraffes. They're not crate trained, so would be hard to move...most of the others will have probably been moved to the upper savannah.

The Waterhole also comes to mind as an affected area. Not sure if Werribee controls draining it; but if not, the whole paddock, alongside the neighbouring enclosure for the Wild Dogs, may also be affected.

There's also the issue of the hippos.Hippo's have escaped due to rising flood waters in the past and although I don't think it's at that level at the moment, they'll have to be wary.

I doubt the bus tours will be running atm.

 

[Jambo]

Here's a video I found of rhinos being led to the upper savannah (via the bus road) during a flood back in 2017.

They're trained for it, and I imagine all of the lower savannah species will have been evacuated there. Most were likely bribed with food imo.

Trained rhinos come when called to escape flood

 

[Zoofan15]

Eight Plains wanderer chicks have hatched:

Rare bird chicks mark milestone at Vic zoo

Werribee Open Range Zoo has successfully bred a total of 36 plains-wanderers since the Zoo's threatened species facility opened in 2017, and it is hoped more will be born during this 2022-23 breeding season.

 

[Jambo]

Werribee have recently sent their Zebra stallion, Melako, to Mogo.

He's been replaced by new stallion, Atero, not sure of his origins though. Will contact Werribee to try and find out.

 

[Jambo]

Werribee have recently sent their Zebra stallion, Melako, to Mogo.

He's been replaced by new stallion, Atero, not sure of his origins though. Will contact Werribee to try and find out.

Confirmation via email- Atreyu is nine years old and was born at Werribee on November 30th 2012, and was hand raised by Werribee keepers. He's the offspring of Christou and Kitale.

The swap between him and Melako makes little to no sense, considering they're half siblings. Hopefully he won't be bred with his nieces; the region's population's inbred but dosen't necessarily need to be to that extent.