Monthly Archives: December 2016

It’s an event 65 million years in the making. From Boxing Day, Adelaide Zoo is travelling back in time to when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Today, seven life-size and life-like roaring, snarling and moving animatronic dinosaurs move in to Adelaide…

Today, Adelaide Zoo’s veterinary team performed a general health check on 11-year-old African Lion Mujambi. The health check was performed under general anaesthetic in the Animal Health Centre and allowed the veterinary team to get up-close to the apex-predator. Adelaide Zoo…

Christmas has come early at Adelaide Zoo with the arrival of a critically endangered White-cheeked Gibbon baby! Born in the early hours of the morning on Saturday, 10 December, the three-day old infant is the fourth offspring born to parents Viet…

Adelaide Zoo’s critically endangered Sumatran Orangutan is expecting a baby in mid-January 2017. This news is cause for cautious excitement at Adelaide Zoo given this pregnancy follows the loss of a stillborn infant in November 2014. Senior Primate Keeper Jodie…

Adelaide Zoo has welcomed a miniature marsupial to the wild family! At four and a half months old, Geronimo the Squirrel Glider joey weighs just 195 grams, but isn’t far off being fully grown! The pint-sized possum is destined to become an important ambassador for…

As a conservation charity, our number one priority is the welfare of our animals. As a leader in animal welfare, we are continually striving to improve our animals’ habitats and we have been very open about the fact Seal Bay…