Monthly Archives: May 2016

Adelaide Zoo will be open tomorrow morning as per usual opening hours with Emergency Services confident that the zoo is now safe for public entry. Based on their investigations, Emergency Services have advised there is no longer a risk to…

Hip hip hooray! Today, Adelaide Zoo is celebrating a very special birthday. One of the newest, and arguably cutest, members of our Zoo family, Obi the Pygmy Hippo, is turning one! To mark this special milestone, keepers are throwing Obi…

Today, Adelaide Zoo celebrated a very special birthday. Our handsome Nile Hippopotamus Brutus, one of our oldest and most iconic residents, turned 51! Keepers spoilt the birthday boy with a special watermelon cake filled with his favourite treats, complete with…

Adelaide Zoo has welcomed a new arrival into the zoo family this week, Cecil the Emu! Our new feathered friend has had a bit of a rough journey to get here. Found by the side of the road as a…

Adelaide Zoo is celebrating the arrival of Obi, the Pygmy Hippo calf! The eleven-month-old male departed Melbourne Zoo on Monday morning at 7am and arrived at his new home at Adelaide Zoo on Monday afternoon at 4:15pm. Obi will today…

Adelaide Zoo Vets perform rare blood transfusion to save Pemba’s life The Adelaide Zoo Animal Health Centre has performed a rare medical procedure on our eight-year-old Red Panda, Pemba, in a bid to save his life. Pemba has been given…