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Taronga Blogs

Two is Company for Zoos Orang utan
Monday 30th November 2009
Orang-utans are solitary by nature and especially adult males often prefer to live alone. However, sometimes they enjoy a bit of company too.
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Learning Elephant Manners
Friday 27th November 2009
Luk Chai’s now over five months old and he’s beginning to learn some elephant manners. We’re starting to teach him some basic words and now that he’s beginning to get a little more interested in the adults' food, he's more inclined to listen to what us keeper have to say.
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Billy Walks the Walk
Thursday 26th November 2009
Today, Erin and I took our female brolga Billy for a walk around the zoo. She has been in our QBE Free Flight Bird Show for nearly as long as it has been running. Going for a walk is something a little different for Billy and allows her to investigate different areas.
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Backyard to Bush Babies (1)
Tuesday 24th November 2009
There has been a recent spate of births at Backyard to Bush keeping everyone very busy.
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Gentle Giants of the Jungle
Monday 23rd November 2009
In Year of the Gorilla Taronga Zoo has been helping these gentle giants of the jungle with a campaign called “They’re calling on you”.
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Zoo's African Elephants cool off in the pool
Thursday 19th November 2009
As the temperature in Dubbo hovers above 35 degrees everyday this week the African Elephants decided to take full advantage of the hot weather by going for a swim in their pool.
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Porntip Prepares for Her Own Calf
Monday 16th November 2009
Even before Luk Chai was born, auntie Tang Mo played an important role in preparing the mother-to-be, Thong Dee . When Thong Dee was in labour Tang Mo gave her a gentle rub on the back wiith her trunk to reassure and give her comfort. When Luk Chai arrived it took a little longer for the older elephants to get used to the newest member of the herd, but we’ve certainly noticed that they’ve now well and truly taken the boisterous young calf to heart as well as under their bellies.
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Taronga's Involvement in Year of the Gorilla
Monday 16th November 2009
We have nine Western Lowland Gorillas at Taronga Zoo. In every gorilla society there is a dominant male called the silverback and our silverback is the very impressive Kibabu who weighs over 200 kg. Also in his family are his three females, Moulia, Kriba and Frala, and then we have our juveniles Mbeli, Fataki and Kimya not to mention our two newest family members Fuzu and Mahale, (both very cute and both very different in personality). Over the coming weeks I will try and update you on our family group and what they have been up to.
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Warm weather sees birth of Bison calf
Friday 13th November 2009
In the early hours of the morning on Tuesday this week, the Zoo welcomed a male Bison calf into the world.
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Handraising three bundles of joy is hard work
Thursday 12th November 2009
Currently two male Eastern Grey joeys and a male Swamp Wallaby are in my care being hand raised.
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