The youngest member of our Gorilla group, Kipenzi, is doing well and at only six weeks old, is growing fast.

Posted on 02nd March 2011 by Media Relations

Breeding season is coming to end and our penguin colony has now grown to 71 Little Penguins. Fourteen of the penguins born this year have already…

Posted on 02nd March 2011 by Media Relations

Taronga Western Plains Zoo’s Tasmanian Devils are into their fourth breeding season since arriving at the Zoo in late 2007.

Posted on 25th February 2011 by Media Relations

Yesterday was another highly successful moment in our work to trim our youngest giraffe, Jimiyu’s, hooves.

Posted on 23rd February 2011 by Media Relations

Taronga Western Plains Zoo welcomed an Eland calf on Tuesday 1 February 2011. The little female is doing very well and has already started to mingle…

Posted on 22nd February 2011 by Media Relations

A special celebration is taking place today for Kufara the Black Rhino which turns one this week! Kufara was born on Thursday 17 February 2010 to…

Posted on 16th February 2011 by Media Relations

We had an eventful start to 2011 when our newest Red-tailed Cockatoo, Keer-Jan-Dee, flew away.

Posted on 16th February 2011 by Media Relations

There is a little romance in the air at Taronga Western Plains Zoo with the arrival of Emiko, a female Oriental Small-clawed Otter which has come…

Posted on 11th February 2011 by Media Relations

Taronga Western Plains Zoo’s staff are going for a roll on the bowling greens to raise funds for conservation programs for the critically endangered…

Posted on 11th February 2011 by Media Relations

If you've been to Taronga recently you most likely saw the elephants and probably the giraffes, but did you see one of our smaller residents…

Posted on 10th February 2011 by Media Relations

In case you don’t know who I am yet, I’m Brendan, a bird trainer from Taronga Zoo, who has spent the last 10 months on a keeper exchange to Toronto…

Posted on 07th February 2011 by Media Relations

In the last six weeks one of our Bowerbirds has produced not one, but two clutches of chicks. I was lucky enough to witness the saga right from the…

Posted on 02nd February 2011 by Media Relations