Koalas can spend twenty hours or more of the day just sleeping or resting in gum trees
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Pathi Harn Turns Six Months Old (10/9/2010)
Pathi Harn is six months old today and weighs in at 318 kg. He is growing fast and is slowly developing his confidence & independence.
Tour de Conserve Detours to Wetlands (9/9/2010)
Taronga Zoo's General Manager Wildlife Conservation, Will Meikle, with 18 other zoo keepers and managers riding from Sydney to the Gold Coast for Australasia's zoos and aquariums to raise awareness of wildlife in National Threatened Species Week. Catch his regular blogs over coming days:
Snouted Cobra's Sight Set (6/9/2010)
Recently during regular checks, we noticed that something didn’t seem right with one of our Snouted Cobras.
Hippo Calf Kambiri Now Four Times Her Birth Weight! (2/9/2010)
Our Pygmy Hippo calf "Kambiri" is growing up so fast, weighing in today at 22.6kg. That’s just over four times what she weighed when she was born!
Flying Back Lighter Into The WIld (10/6/2010)
Yesterday Taronga Wildlife Hospital nurse Gemma successfully released the now healthy Kookaburra that only weeks ago was too fat to fly.
Koala Proofing at Taronga (9/6/2010)
Australian Fauna has a lot happening with koalas including renovations to Koala Walkabout and the need to rehouse the four resident koalas during this time. After some thought and planning we decided to move them into the Echidna Yard.
Make a difference this World Environment Day (4/6/2010)
World Environment Day is an important day on the calendar as it promotes environmental awareness. This Saturday is World Environment Day and aims to build awareness of the environment and encourage people to take action.
Taronga's New Calf Enjoys Play with Luk Chai (23/3/2010)
Luk Chai, Australia's first elephant calf is getting to know his new younger herdmate.
Tex is the devils dad! (19/11/2009)
Tasmanian Devil paternity results are in at Taronga confirming that Tex is the dad of Martha’s joeys
7pm Project - Gorillas 2009 (17/11/2009)
Channel 10's James Mathison visited Taronga today to learn about Western Lowland Gorillas and the impact that Coltan mining is having on their natural habitat in Africa During his visit James met Taronga's Senior primate Keeper, Lou Grossfeldt, who told him about the impact of deforestation, Coltan mining and the bushmeat trade is having on the wild gorilla populations.
Taronga Has Barbary Birth Boom Too (28/9/2009)
We’ve had two of our female Barbary sheep become mothers, with a set of twins for one female and a single female lamb for the other.
Turtle Gets Picky on Titbits (22/9/2009)
A 100 kilogram Green Turtle at the Taronga Wildlife Hospital is proving to be a fussy eater, knocking back her vegetables in favour of juicy fish.
Condors Choose Private Hatching (18/9/2009)
Our plan to study the hatching of a new Andean Condor chick using cameras in the nest boxes came unravelled today.
