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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
Keepers at Taronga Western Plains Zoo have been selling Tiger themed calendars across the latter half of 2010 to help raise funds for programs that…
Posted on 31st January 2011 by Media Relations
These school holidays the Zoo Adventurers have gone undercover as their favourite goblins, elves, fairies and trolls to track down the dragon that…
Posted on 31st January 2011 by Media Relations
Our Gorilla group has expanded from eight to nine, and our Primate keepers witnessed the whole birth!
Posted on 28th January 2011 by Media Relations
There has been a changing of the guard in Taronga Western Plains Zoo’s Otter group.
Posted on 26th January 2011 by Media Relations