Wild Life Sydney
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Date opened |
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Location | Darling Harbour, City of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Coordinates | 33°52′12″S 151°12′6″E / 33.87000°S 151.20167°ECoordinates: 33°52′12″S 151°12′6″E / 33.87000°S 151.20167°E |
Land area | 7,000 square metres (75,000 sq ft) |
No. of animals | Unknown |
No. of species | Unknown |
Memberships | |
Major exhibits | 10 Zones |
Owner | Merlin Entertainments |
Public transit access |
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Website | www |
Wild Life Sydney Zoo (formerly Sydney Wildlife World) is a wildlife park in the Darling Harbour precinct, on the western edge of the Sydney central business district, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Opened in September 2006, the zoo is located adjacent to a leisure and retail precinct that includes the SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium and Madame Tussauds Sydney.[3]
History
In May 2006, Sydney Aquarium Pty Ltd announced plans to expand the existing aquarium site, in order to incorporate a wildlife park. Following this announcement, and after the acquisition of the tourist attractions at Sydney Tower and of Manly Oceanarium, Sydney Aquarium Pty Ltd changed its name to Sydney Attractions Group. Village Roadshow Limited purchased Sydney Attractions Group in late 2007. UK attractions group Merlin Entertainments bought Sydney Wildlife World as part of its acquisition of Village Roadshow assets in March 2011.
The park changed its name to Wild Life Sydney Zoo (trademarked as Wild Life Sydney) and re-opened on 13 September 2011.
The attraction won the Award for the best family-focused tourism at The Australian's 2007 Travel and Tourism Awards.[4]
Design
Construction began in November 2004 on the site, and was completed in August 2006. Wild Life Sydney is unusual for a zoo or wildlife park in that the public areas are almost entirely enclosed and air-conditioned. The A$52 million development features a 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) walkway which snakes through 7,000 square metres (75,000 sq ft) of enclosures.
The upper level exhibits are open-air, enclosed only by a large stainless steel mesh roof structure supported by curved beams, which were designed to look like the ribs of the rainbow serpent of Aboriginal myth when viewed from above. This open-air feature has enabled the exhibits to be landscaped naturally with live plants, including full-sized trees. The largest exhibit is the 800-square-metre (8,600 sq ft) semi-arid habitat of kangaroo walkabout, featuring 250 tonnes (280 short tons) of red sand trucked in from central Australia and full-sized bottle trees. This habitat houses Kangaroo Island kangaroos, echidnas, a quokka and koalas.
Exhibits
Wild Life Sydney Zoo is divided into ten zones, containing the following exhibits:
Tricky Tongues and Treehouse
- Short-beaked echidna
- Numbat
- Goodfellow's tree kangaroo
- Scrub python
- Merten's water monitor
- Eastern water dragon
- Boyd's forest dragon
- Northern long-necked turtle
- Broad-shelled river turtle
- White-lipped tree frog
Devil's Den
- Tasmanian devil
- Emerald dove
- Satin bowerbird
- Eastern brown snake
- Inland taipan
- Blotched blue-tongued lizard
- Cunningham's spiny-tailed skink
Gumtree Valley
Wallaby Cliffs
Daintree Rainforest
- Red-legged pademelon
- Southern cassowary
- Australian king parrot
- Plumed whistling duck
- Satin bowerbird
- Topknot pigeon
- Wonga pigeon
- Emerald dove
- Brown cuckoo-dove
- Red-browed finch
- Frill-neck lizard
- Boyd's forest dragon
- Magnificent tree frog
- Australian green tree frog
- Green and golden bell frog
Kangaroo Walkabout
- Eastern grey kangaroo
- Kangaroo Island grey kangaroo
- Agile wallaby
- Quokka
- Galah
- Australian king parrot
- Princess parrot
- Cockatiel
- Budgerigar
- Spinifex pigeon
- Wonga pigeon
- White-headed pigeon
- Emerald dove
- White-browed woodswallow
- Chesnut-eared finch
- Gouldian finch
- Red-browed finch
- Chestnut-breasted mannikin
Kakadu Gorge
- Red-collared lorikeet
- Saltwater crocodile
- Pig-nosed turtle
- Frill-neck lizard
- Central bearded dragon
- Dwarf bearded dragon
- Central netted dragon
- Shingleback lizard
- Olive python
- Crimson-spotted rainbowfish
- Banded rainbowfish
- Seven-spot archerfish
Platypus Pool
Night Fall
- Ghost bat
- Rufous bettong
- Bilby
- Yellow-bellied glider
- Feathertail glider
- Night skink
- Centralian knob-tailed gecko
- Black-headed python
- Woma python
- Spotted python
Discovery Treehouse
- Spinifex hopping mouse
- Golden-tailed gecko
- Blue yabby
- Queensland whistling tarantula
- Sydney funnel-web spider
- Redback spider
- Wolf spider
- Sydney huntsman spider
- Goliath stick-insect
- Cyclone Larry stick insect
- Giant burrowing cockroach
- Mitchell's rainforest snail
- Superworm
- Giant bull ant
Koala Rooftop (including Koala Rooftop Cafe)
- Koala
Experiences
Wild Life Sydney offers a range of experiences for their guests. These experiences include breakfast with the koalas, which entails an early morning guided tour around the zoo before a buffet breakfast with the koalas as well as a photo taken with a koala. Koala photos are also available throughout the day.
Additionally, the zoo offers a behind the scenes guided tour. Private dining experiences are also available.
See also
References
- ^ "Member Location Map". zooaquarium.org.au. ZAA. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
- ^ "Zoos and Aquariums of the World". waza.org. WAZA. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
- ^ Starkey, Erina (20 September 2016). "Join us on City Safari! The best places to find nature in Sydney". The Daily Telegraph. Australia. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
- ^ e-Travel Blackboard: Australia's Number One Industry Newsletter
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