I hear your priorities are in check
Your zoo visits
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It's a-me, Quell-ioI hear your priorities are in check
Spent a couple hours this morning at Cleland Wildlife Park and, as usual, here are some of the resulting photographs:
Park entrance
A look within the Oceans to Outback building
Spinifex hopping-mice and long-nosed potoroo, two small nocturnal hoppers
Spiny-tailed monitor, Peninsula dragon and gidgee skink, three rock-loving reptiles
A massive olive python, Australia's second largest snake
Southern bell frog
A pink cockatoo and female yellow-tailed black-cockatoo having a bit of a dispute
My beloved Tasmanian devil
An alpine dingo strolling across a log
Red kangaroos, though none of these individuals are very red
Koalas enjoying lunch
Regent parrot and royal spoonbill in the wetlands aviary
Free-roaming tammar wallaby and magpie geese around the wetland lake
A look inside the forest aviary
A look towards the city from the rock-wallaby walkthrough
Lots of great pictures of these spectacular marsupials today
One very chillaxed Kangaroo Island kangaroo
A marauding horde of echidnas and a southern brown bandicoot, both sharing the same enclosure. The bandicoots were quick to move out of the way of their spikey cagemates!
A big and dusty heath goanna, the most cold tolerant of all varanid species
Because I love to make lists, I also took note of every species currently on display as I made my way around the park, resulting in the list below. It'll be fun to continue this in the future and see how the park's collection changes over time - for an example just off the top of my head, in recent years the Oceans to Outback building (the main indoor facility) has moved out several of its small mammals (fat-tailed dunnart, western pygmy possum, greater stick-nest rat) and replaced them with additional reptiles (gidgee skink, spiny-tailed monitor etc).
Park entrance
A look within the Oceans to Outback building
Spinifex hopping-mice and long-nosed potoroo, two small nocturnal hoppers
Spiny-tailed monitor, Peninsula dragon and gidgee skink, three rock-loving reptiles
A massive olive python, Australia's second largest snake
Southern bell frog
A pink cockatoo and female yellow-tailed black-cockatoo having a bit of a dispute
My beloved Tasmanian devil
An alpine dingo strolling across a log
Red kangaroos, though none of these individuals are very red
Koalas enjoying lunch
Regent parrot and royal spoonbill in the wetlands aviary
Free-roaming tammar wallaby and magpie geese around the wetland lake
A look inside the forest aviary
A look towards the city from the rock-wallaby walkthrough
Lots of great pictures of these spectacular marsupials today
One very chillaxed Kangaroo Island kangaroo
A marauding horde of echidnas and a southern brown bandicoot, both sharing the same enclosure. The bandicoots were quick to move out of the way of their spikey cagemates!
A big and dusty heath goanna, the most cold tolerant of all varanid species
Because I love to make lists, I also took note of every species currently on display as I made my way around the park, resulting in the list below. It'll be fun to continue this in the future and see how the park's collection changes over time - for an example just off the top of my head, in recent years the Oceans to Outback building (the main indoor facility) has moved out several of its small mammals (fat-tailed dunnart, western pygmy possum, greater stick-nest rat) and replaced them with additional reptiles (gidgee skink, spiny-tailed monitor etc).
Mammals
Monotremata
Tachyglossidae
1. Short-beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)
Dasyuromorphia
Dasyuridae
2. Tasmanian Devil (Sarcophilus harrisii)
Peramelemorphia
Peramelidae
3. Southern Brown Bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus)
Thylacomyidae
4. Greater Bilby (Macrotis lagotis)
Diprotodontia
Phascolarctidae
5. Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)
Vombatidae
6. Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons)
Potoroidae
7. Brush-tailed Bettong (Bettongia penicillata)
8. Long-nosed Potoroo (Potorous tridactylus)
Macropodidae
9. Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby (Petrogale xanthopus)
10. Western Grey Kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus melanops)
11. Kangaroo Island Kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus fuliginosus)
12. Red Kangaroo (Osphranter rufus)
13. Tammar Wallaby (Notamacropus eugenii)
14. Swamp Wallaby (Wallabia bicolor)
Rodentia
Muridae
15. Spinifex Hopping-mouse (Notomys alexis)
Carnivora
Canidae
16. Dingo (Canis lupus dingo)
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Birds
Casuariiformes
Casuariidae
1. Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae)
Anseriformes
Anseranatidae
2. Magpie Goose (Anseranas semipalmata)
Anatidae
3. Plumed Whistling-duck (Dendrocygna eytoni)
4. Cape Barren Goose (Cereopsis novaehollandiae)
5. Black Swan (Cygnus atratus)
6. Radjah Shelduck (Tadorna radjah)
7. Australian Shelduck (Tadorna australis)
8. Pacific Black Duck (Anas superciliosa)
9. Grey Teal (Anas gracilis)
10. Chestnut Teal (Anas castanea)
11. Hardhead (Aythya australis)
Pelecaniformes
Threskiornithidae
12. Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus)
13. Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia)
Pelecanidae
14. Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus)
Suliformes
Phalacrocoracidae
15. Little Pied Cormorant (Microcarbo melanoleucos)
16. Little Black Cormorant (Phalacrocorax sulcirostris)
17. Pied Cormorant (Phalacrocorax varius)
Anhingidae
18. Australasian Darter (Anhinga novaehollandiae)
Gruiformes
Rallidae
19. Buff-banded Rail (Hypotaenidia philippensis)
Charadriiformes
Burhinidae
20. Bush Stone-curlew (Burhinus grallarius)
Recurvirostridae
21. Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus leucocephalus)
Charadriidae
22. Banded Lapwing (Vanellus tricolor)
23. Inland Dotterel (Peltohyas australis)
Columbiformes
Columbidae
24. Brush Bronzewing (Phaps elegans)
25. Diamond Dove (Geopelia cuneata)
26. Peaceful Dove (Geopelia placida)
27. Bar-shouldered Dove (Geopelia humeralis)
Podargiformes
Podargidae
28. Tawny Frogmouth (Podargus strigoides)
Psittaciformes
Cacatuidae
29. Red-tailed Black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii)
30. Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus)
31. Pink Cockatoo (Lophochroa leadbeater)
32. Galah (Eolophus roseicapilla)
33. Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita)
Psittaculidae
34. Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus)
35. Musk Lorikeet (Glossopsitta concinna)
36. Purple-crowned Lorikeet (Glossopsitta porphyrocephala)
37. Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus)
38. Regent Parrot (Polytelis anthopeplus)
39. Princess Parrot (Polytelis alexandrae)
Passeriformes
Meliphagidae
40. Regent Honeyeater (Anthochaera phrygia)
Psophodidae
41. Eastern Whipbird (Psophodes olivaceus)
Artamidae
42. White-browed Woodswallow (Artamus superciliosus)
Pachycephalidae
43. Western Whistler (Pachycephala pectoralis)
Zosteropidae
44. Silvereye (Zosterops lateralis)
Estrildidae
45. Red-browed Finch (Neochmia temporalis)
46. Australian Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia castanotis)
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Reptiles
Squamata
Scincidae
1. Cunningham's Skink (Egernia cunninghami)
2. Gidgee Skink (Egernia stokesii)
3. Tree Skink (Egernia striolata)
4. Shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa)
5. Eastern Bluetongue Skink (Tiliqua scincoides scincoides)
Agamidae
6. Tawny Dragon (Ctenophorus decresii)
7. Peninsula Dragon (Ctenophorus fionni)
8. Central Bearded Dragon (Pogona vitticeps)
9. Lined Earless Dragon (Tympanocryptis petersi)
Varanidae
10. Spiny-tailed Monitor (Varanus acanthurus)
11. Heath Goanna (Varanus rosenbergi)
Pythonidae
12. Children's Python (Antaresia childreni)
13. Woma (Aspidites ramsayi)
14. Olive Python (Liasis olivaceus)
15. Murray-Darling Carpet Python (Morelia spilota metcalfei)
Elapidae
16. Pygmy Copperhead (Austrelaps labialis)
17. Broad-headed Snake (Hoplocephalus bungaroides)
18. Tiger Snake (Notechis scutatus)
19. Inland Taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus)
20. King Brown Snake (Pseudechis australis)
21. Eastern Brown Snake (Pseudonaja textilis)
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Amphibians
Anura
Bufonidae
1. Cane Toad (Rhinella marina)
Pelodryadidae
2. Ewing's Tree Frog (Litoria ewingii)
3. Peron's Tree Frog (Litoria peronii)
4. Australian Green Tree Frog (Ranoidea caerulea)
5. Southern Bell Frog (Ranoidea raniformis)
Limnodynastidae
6. Spotted Marsh Frog (Limnodynastes tasmaniensis)
Myobatrachidae
7. Common Eastern Froglet (Crinia signifera)
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Fish
Perciformes
Percichthyidae
1. Yarra Pygmy Perch (Nannoperca obscura)
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Arthropods
Scorpiones
Urodacidae
1. Flinders Ranges Scorpion (Urodacus elongatus)
Araneae
Lycosidae
2. Union-Jack Wolf Spider (Tasmanicosa leuckartii)
Pisauridae
3. Fishing Spider (Dolomedes sp.)
Sparassidae
4. Social Huntsman (Delena cancerides)
5. Murray Banded Huntsman (Holconia murrayensis)
Theridiidae
6. Redback Spider (Latrodectus hasselti)
Decapoda
Parastacidae
7. Common Yabby (Cherax destructor)
Orthoptera
Acrididea
8. Grasshopper (unspecified)
Tettigonidae
9. Common Garden Katydid (Caedicia simplex)
Phasmatodea
Phasmatidae
10. Margin-winged Stick Insect (Ctenomorpha marginipennis)
11. Goliath Stick Insect (Eurycnema goliath)
12. Spiny Leaf Insect (Extatosoma tiaratum)
Hemiptera
Corixidae
13. Water Boatman (unspecified)
Notonectidae
14. Backswimmer (unspecified)
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
15. Bull Ant (Myrmecia sp.)
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
16. Egyptian Beetle (Blaps polychresta)
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
17. Monarch (Danaus plexippus)
18. Ringed Xenica (Geitoneura acantha)
19. Common Brown (Heteronympha merope)
20. Australian Admiral (Vanessa itea)
21. Australian Painted Lady (Vanessa kershawi)
Papilionidae
22. Orchard Swallowtail (Papilio aegeus)
23. Dainty Swallowtail (Papilio anactus)
24. Chequered Swallowtail (Papilio demoleus)
Monotremata
Tachyglossidae
1. Short-beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)
Dasyuromorphia
Dasyuridae
2. Tasmanian Devil (Sarcophilus harrisii)
Peramelemorphia
Peramelidae
3. Southern Brown Bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus)
Thylacomyidae
4. Greater Bilby (Macrotis lagotis)
Diprotodontia
Phascolarctidae
5. Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)
Vombatidae
6. Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons)
Potoroidae
7. Brush-tailed Bettong (Bettongia penicillata)
8. Long-nosed Potoroo (Potorous tridactylus)
Macropodidae
9. Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby (Petrogale xanthopus)
10. Western Grey Kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus melanops)
11. Kangaroo Island Kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus fuliginosus)
12. Red Kangaroo (Osphranter rufus)
13. Tammar Wallaby (Notamacropus eugenii)
14. Swamp Wallaby (Wallabia bicolor)
Rodentia
Muridae
15. Spinifex Hopping-mouse (Notomys alexis)
Carnivora
Canidae
16. Dingo (Canis lupus dingo)
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Birds
Casuariiformes
Casuariidae
1. Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae)
Anseriformes
Anseranatidae
2. Magpie Goose (Anseranas semipalmata)
Anatidae
3. Plumed Whistling-duck (Dendrocygna eytoni)
4. Cape Barren Goose (Cereopsis novaehollandiae)
5. Black Swan (Cygnus atratus)
6. Radjah Shelduck (Tadorna radjah)
7. Australian Shelduck (Tadorna australis)
8. Pacific Black Duck (Anas superciliosa)
9. Grey Teal (Anas gracilis)
10. Chestnut Teal (Anas castanea)
11. Hardhead (Aythya australis)
Pelecaniformes
Threskiornithidae
12. Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus)
13. Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia)
Pelecanidae
14. Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus)
Suliformes
Phalacrocoracidae
15. Little Pied Cormorant (Microcarbo melanoleucos)
16. Little Black Cormorant (Phalacrocorax sulcirostris)
17. Pied Cormorant (Phalacrocorax varius)
Anhingidae
18. Australasian Darter (Anhinga novaehollandiae)
Gruiformes
Rallidae
19. Buff-banded Rail (Hypotaenidia philippensis)
Charadriiformes
Burhinidae
20. Bush Stone-curlew (Burhinus grallarius)
Recurvirostridae
21. Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus leucocephalus)
Charadriidae
22. Banded Lapwing (Vanellus tricolor)
23. Inland Dotterel (Peltohyas australis)
Columbiformes
Columbidae
24. Brush Bronzewing (Phaps elegans)
25. Diamond Dove (Geopelia cuneata)
26. Peaceful Dove (Geopelia placida)
27. Bar-shouldered Dove (Geopelia humeralis)
Podargiformes
Podargidae
28. Tawny Frogmouth (Podargus strigoides)
Psittaciformes
Cacatuidae
29. Red-tailed Black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii)
30. Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus)
31. Pink Cockatoo (Lophochroa leadbeater)
32. Galah (Eolophus roseicapilla)
33. Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita)
Psittaculidae
34. Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus)
35. Musk Lorikeet (Glossopsitta concinna)
36. Purple-crowned Lorikeet (Glossopsitta porphyrocephala)
37. Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus)
38. Regent Parrot (Polytelis anthopeplus)
39. Princess Parrot (Polytelis alexandrae)
Passeriformes
Meliphagidae
40. Regent Honeyeater (Anthochaera phrygia)
Psophodidae
41. Eastern Whipbird (Psophodes olivaceus)
Artamidae
42. White-browed Woodswallow (Artamus superciliosus)
Pachycephalidae
43. Western Whistler (Pachycephala pectoralis)
Zosteropidae
44. Silvereye (Zosterops lateralis)
Estrildidae
45. Red-browed Finch (Neochmia temporalis)
46. Australian Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia castanotis)
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Reptiles
Squamata
Scincidae
1. Cunningham's Skink (Egernia cunninghami)
2. Gidgee Skink (Egernia stokesii)
3. Tree Skink (Egernia striolata)
4. Shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa)
5. Eastern Bluetongue Skink (Tiliqua scincoides scincoides)
Agamidae
6. Tawny Dragon (Ctenophorus decresii)
7. Peninsula Dragon (Ctenophorus fionni)
8. Central Bearded Dragon (Pogona vitticeps)
9. Lined Earless Dragon (Tympanocryptis petersi)
Varanidae
10. Spiny-tailed Monitor (Varanus acanthurus)
11. Heath Goanna (Varanus rosenbergi)
Pythonidae
12. Children's Python (Antaresia childreni)
13. Woma (Aspidites ramsayi)
14. Olive Python (Liasis olivaceus)
15. Murray-Darling Carpet Python (Morelia spilota metcalfei)
Elapidae
16. Pygmy Copperhead (Austrelaps labialis)
17. Broad-headed Snake (Hoplocephalus bungaroides)
18. Tiger Snake (Notechis scutatus)
19. Inland Taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus)
20. King Brown Snake (Pseudechis australis)
21. Eastern Brown Snake (Pseudonaja textilis)
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Amphibians
Anura
Bufonidae
1. Cane Toad (Rhinella marina)
Pelodryadidae
2. Ewing's Tree Frog (Litoria ewingii)
3. Peron's Tree Frog (Litoria peronii)
4. Australian Green Tree Frog (Ranoidea caerulea)
5. Southern Bell Frog (Ranoidea raniformis)
Limnodynastidae
6. Spotted Marsh Frog (Limnodynastes tasmaniensis)
Myobatrachidae
7. Common Eastern Froglet (Crinia signifera)
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Fish
Perciformes
Percichthyidae
1. Yarra Pygmy Perch (Nannoperca obscura)
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Arthropods
Scorpiones
Urodacidae
1. Flinders Ranges Scorpion (Urodacus elongatus)
Araneae
Lycosidae
2. Union-Jack Wolf Spider (Tasmanicosa leuckartii)
Pisauridae
3. Fishing Spider (Dolomedes sp.)
Sparassidae
4. Social Huntsman (Delena cancerides)
5. Murray Banded Huntsman (Holconia murrayensis)
Theridiidae
6. Redback Spider (Latrodectus hasselti)
Decapoda
Parastacidae
7. Common Yabby (Cherax destructor)
Orthoptera
Acrididea
8. Grasshopper (unspecified)
Tettigonidae
9. Common Garden Katydid (Caedicia simplex)
Phasmatodea
Phasmatidae
10. Margin-winged Stick Insect (Ctenomorpha marginipennis)
11. Goliath Stick Insect (Eurycnema goliath)
12. Spiny Leaf Insect (Extatosoma tiaratum)
Hemiptera
Corixidae
13. Water Boatman (unspecified)
Notonectidae
14. Backswimmer (unspecified)
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
15. Bull Ant (Myrmecia sp.)
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
16. Egyptian Beetle (Blaps polychresta)
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
17. Monarch (Danaus plexippus)
18. Ringed Xenica (Geitoneura acantha)
19. Common Brown (Heteronympha merope)
20. Australian Admiral (Vanessa itea)
21. Australian Painted Lady (Vanessa kershawi)
Papilionidae
22. Orchard Swallowtail (Papilio aegeus)
23. Dainty Swallowtail (Papilio anactus)
24. Chequered Swallowtail (Papilio demoleus)
That's so cool! Where is that?
I meant in what country is that located?
In Spain, Valencia is the third largest city in the country after Madrid and Barcelona.
I had a surprising opportunity to visit a zoo today. I missed a connecting flight from Valencia to Edinburgh via Frankfurt and had to stay the night.
Fortunately my new flight was late enough in the afternoon for me to spend a few hours at Frankfurt Zoo.
Most exciting, and topical for us, was a baby fossa. Plus red river hogs and gibbons. I also saw active orang utans brachiating and a very cute baby gorilla.
Fortunately my new flight was late enough in the afternoon for me to spend a few hours at Frankfurt Zoo.
Most exciting, and topical for us, was a baby fossa. Plus red river hogs and gibbons. I also saw active orang utans brachiating and a very cute baby gorilla.
Wow, man, those are really cool photos. What kinda camera is it? (I like to take photos but my phone camera isn't great)
Canon Eos Rebel T6, with a 600mm zoom lens...but I always say its not the camera, its the photographer. The camera is just a tool.
I live next to Dierentuin (zoo) Blijdorp in Rotterdam (the Netherlands) and been there a lot of times, especially because I get free tickets 2 times a year. I love the Okapi, butterfly garden (with arapaima) and Red River Hogs
I work with older (often lonely) people and I'm gonna give one of the most lonely women there a present ticket as she wanted to go so badly but can't afford it.
I work with older (often lonely) people and I'm gonna give one of the most lonely women there a present ticket as she wanted to go so badly but can't afford it.
After a very long time, I will finally go to the zoo again. It'll be the 1st time I go since the Galapagos section has been opened
You must post all pictures after that
Yes plis, I need pictures, I want to see this new section