
Meerkat ‘baby boom’ at Taronga
Taronga Zoo is celebrating the birth of the second litter of meerkat pups this year.
Taronga Zoo is celebrating the birth of the second litter of meerkat pups this year.
An adorable baby female François Langur – one of the world’s rarest monkeys – was born in Sydney last month.
A tiny yellow-bellied glider has found a surrogate mum at Taronga Zoo after surviving a collision with a barbed-wire fence.
Today marks 100 years since the opening of Taronga Zoo at its current site in Mosman on the north shore of Sydney Harbour. The first public zoo in New South Wales, Taronga has come a long way since the early days. We take a look back through its history. Click on the image to scroll, or swipe right-to-left if using a touchscreen device.
Taronga Zoo has welcomed its first new meerkat pups in almost seven years, and they’re outrageously cute.
An orphaned brushtail possum is making a quick recovery at Taronga Wildlife Hospital, with the help of round-the-clock care and a fluffy kangaroo. The joey, nicknamed ‘Bettina’, was discovered alone and dehydrated in Mosman, Sydney, in September. She was given emergency first aid, then sent to Taronga Wildlife Hospital to be hand-raised by a vet nurse. During her rehabilitation, Bettina became attached to a kangaroo soft toy, which nurses say provides an object of comfort in the absence of a mother. A second orphaned possum is making her recovery after three weeks at the hospital. The five-month old ringtail was found in a car park at Balmoral, Sydney. Since her rescue, she has grown substantially, and learned to lap milk from a dish. Both possums will remain in care until they are fit to begin their soft release, a step towards full release into the wild.
Seven tiny feather-tail glider joeys have left their nesting boxes, eager to explore their Taronga Zoo exhibit. Part of the world’s smallest gliding marsupial, these little joeys are only half the size of a grain of rice at birth, but grow to about one centimeter long before leaving their mother’s pouch. The joeys were discovered in the Taronga Zoo nest boxes recently, and are estimated to be 13 or 14 weeks old.
Seven exquisitely small feather-tail glider juveniles have emerged from their nest boxes at Taronga Zoo this week
Taronga Zoo’s second baby wombat is proof of breeding success with these notoriously difficult-to-pair natives.
Yesterday the death of a baby Asian elephant at Taronga Zoo left us feeling decidedly flat. Elephants have an onerously long gestation period of somewhere between 600 and 660 days…