Wildlife HQ Zoo Wildlife HQ News 2022

I visited Wildlife HQ today just to round off the year with a zoo visit to a local favourite. Several new species have arrived since my last visit in August and I was keen to see how the zoo was progressing as we round off the year and start looking towards 2023. Notes are below:
  • the new Ball Python was on-display in reptile house and it was incredible to finally see a snake that is abundant overseas but is only found in a handful of Australian zoos currently. I imagine some of the members overseas reading this might find it slightly amusing to be excited over something like a Ball Python but it’s a great little species in its own right – a really suitable, hardy, compact python species that I hope starts spreading to other Australian zoos.
  • the Alligator Snapping Turtles are indeed on-show in the reptile house in the one of the former crocodilian exhibits and made for another excellent addition for the facility. They have a lot of growing to do. A Centralian Python is also now on-display as well.
  • the new Bilbies are on-show right at the front of the park in a former enclosure that housed Brush-tailed Rock Wallabies. The exhibit has been halved with a male on either side. Not surprisingly, the bilbies were not seen but would be viewable during the night zoo tours.
  • the Radiated Tortoises have been mixed with the four Black-and-white Ruffed Lemurs. The tortoises only have access to the front portion of the grassy area but the lemurs can go in and out of the tortoise’s small yard within their exhibit.
  • a few of the other notes as well – the Cape Porcupine is a great species to have at the zoo now, the new red panda enclosure is excellent as well to enable them to house three males and their binturong was very active. He is the largest binturong I’ve seen to date.
  • there is some new landscaping work that has been completed around the sun bear and squirrel monkeys – mainly a new pathway that passes both exhibits, a new shade cloth and a mulched garden bed with tropical plants to beautify the area.
Highlights from today (for more photos of the new exhibits and species, see here: Wildlife HQ Zoo - ZooChat):
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WhistlingKite24 said:
The future is looking very bright for Wildlife HQ. Confirming plans for expansion, the zoo have stated they are in the process of acquiring more land near the Big Pineapple to expand their animal collection further as they are almost at capacity within their current footprint. They were also recently declared a finalist in the Sunshine Coast Business Awards: Zoo overcomes the odds and has big plans for the future
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I missed this post, until Zorro’s post above set me looking for it. If they’re able to add the space they’d need for some big cats, an African savannah complex and maybe in time a great ape species, they will pose a real threat to a certain glorified reality TV show set in their vicinity. With Steve gone for 16 years now, surely at some point the actual value proposition has to count for more than the celebrity halo.
 
WhistlingKite24 said:
I visited Wildlife HQ today just to round off the year with a zoo visit to a local favourite. Several new species have arrived since my last visit in August and I was keen to see how the zoo was progressing as we round off the year and start looking towards 2023. Notes are below:
  • the new Ball Python was on-display in reptile house and it was incredible to finally see a snake that is abundant overseas but is only found in a handful of Australian zoos currently. I imagine some of the members overseas reading this might find it slightly amusing to be excited over something like a Ball Python but it’s a great little species in its own right – a really suitable, hardy, compact python species that I hope starts spreading to other Australian zoos.
  • the Alligator Snapping Turtles are indeed on-show in the reptile house in the one of the former crocodilian exhibits and made for another excellent addition for the facility. They have a lot of growing to do. A Centralian Python is also now on-display as well.
  • the new Bilbies are on-show right at the front of the park in a former enclosure that housed Brush-tailed Rock Wallabies. The exhibit has been halved with a male on either side. Not surprisingly, the bilbies were not seen but would be viewable during the night zoo tours.
  • the Radiated Tortoises have been mixed with the four Black-and-white Ruffed Lemurs. The tortoises only have access to the front portion of the grassy area but the lemurs can go in and out of the tortoise’s small yard within their exhibit.
  • a few of the other notes as well – the Cape Porcupine is a great species to have at the zoo now, the new red panda enclosure is excellent as well to enable them to house three males and their binturong was very active. He is the largest binturong I’ve seen to date.
  • there is some new landscaping work that has been completed around the sun bear and squirrel monkeys – mainly a new pathway that passes both exhibits, a new shade cloth and a mulched garden bed with tropical plants to beautify the area.
Highlights from today (for more photos of the new exhibits and species, see here: Wildlife HQ Zoo - ZooChat):
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Good that the Ball Python are on display, I'm thinking of visiting here & Australia Zoo next week. What's the current lineup for the Reptile Barn?
 
OskarGC said:
Good that the Ball Python are on display, I'm thinking of visiting here & Australia Zoo next week. What's the current lineup for the Reptile Barn?
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If you do end up visiting Australia Zoo, make sure you try and see the Yakka Skinks that are mixed with the bearded dragons and shingleback in the reptile house if you haven’t already. Also it’s worth looking for the last Black-footed Rock-Wallaby in the main walkthrough exhibit if she’s still around. Anyway, here is the reptile barn list doing a loop around from today:

1. Boyd’s Forest Dragon
2. Spotted Tree Monitor
3. Fijian Crested Iguana
4. Ball Python
5. Woma
6. Centralian Python
7. empty
8. Alligator Snapping Turtle
9. Black-headed Python
10. Jungle Carpet Python
11. Corn Snake
12. Central Netted Dragon
13. Stimson’s Python
14. Gilbert’s Dragon
15. Freshwater Crocodile
 
WhistlingKite24 said:
If you do end up visiting Australia Zoo, make sure you try and see the Yakka Skinks that are mixed with the bearded dragons and shingleback in the reptile house if you haven’t already. Also it’s worth looking for the last Black-footed Rock-Wallaby in the main walkthrough exhibit if she’s still around. Anyway, here is the reptile barn list doing a loop around from today:

1. Boyd’s Forest Dragon
2. Spotted Tree Monitor
3. Fijian Crested Iguana
4. Ball Python
5. Woma
6. Centralian Python
7. empty
8. Alligator Snapping Turtle
9. Black-headed Python
10. Jungle Carpet Python
11. Corn Snake
12. Central Netted Dragon
13. Stimson’s Python
14. Gilbert’s Dragon
15. Freshwater Crocodile
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That was my plan. Hopefully I can see the rock-wallaby as I dipped on her last time. I'll also try & see the Blue Poison Dart-Frog as I haven't seen them yet either. Thanks for the Reptile Barn species list.
 
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