| Taronga Zoo entrance | | | | Eastern Water Dragon |
| Taronga Zoo is the city zoo of Sydney, New South | | | | Eastern Blue-tongued Lizard |
| Wales, Australia. Officially opened on October 7, 1916, it | | | | Cunningham's Skink |
| is located on the shores of Sydney Harbour in the | | | | Eastern Water Skink |
| suburb of Mosman. Taronga Zoo is managed by the | | | | Southern Leaf-tailed Gecko |
| Zoological Parks Board of New South Wales under | | | | Eastern Long-necked Turtle |
| the trading name Taronga Conservation Society along | | | | Helmore Parrot Aviary |
| with Dubbo's Taronga Western Plains Zoo. | | | | Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo |
| Divided into eight zoogeographic regions, Taronga Zoo | | | | Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo |
| is home to over 2,600 animals on 21 hectares, making | | | | Short-billed Black-Cockatoo |
| it one of the largest of its kind. | | | | Sulphur-crested Cockatoo |
| Contents | | | | Major Mitchell's Cockatoo |
| 1 History | | | | Gang-gang Cockatoo |
| 1.1 Rustic Bridge | | | | Backyard to Bush |
| 1.2 Later additions and changes | | | | Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat |
| 1.3 2000 Masterplan | | | | Red Kangaroo |
| 1.4 Zoo Friends | | | | Eastern Grey Kangaroo |
| 2 Notable Events | | | | Spinifex Hopping-mouse |
| 2.1 Platypus Birth | | | | House Mouse |
| 2.2 Elephant Birth | | | | Guinea Pig |
| 3 Animals and exhibits | | | | European Rabbit |
| 3.1 Wild Australia | | | | Sheep |
| 3.1.1 Australian Wetlands | | | | Goat |
| 3.1.2 Australian Walkabout | | | | Pig |
| 3.1.3 Koala Encounters/Koala Walkabout | | | | Emu |
| 3.1.4 Platypus House | | | | Budgerigar |
| 3.1.5 Australian Nightlife | | | | Cockatiel |
| 3.1.6 Australian Rainforest Aviary | | | | King Quail |
| 3.1.7 Australian Bush Birds | | | | Chicken |
| 3.1.8 Creatures of the Wollemi | | | | Wild Turkey |
| 3.1.9 Helmore Parrot Aviary | | | | Children's python |
| 3.1.10 Backyard to Bush | | | | Diamond Python |
| 3.1.11 Other Wild Australia | | | | Red-bellied Black Snake |
| 3.2 Great Southern Oceans | | | | Coastal Bearded Dragon |
| 3.3 Moore Park Aviary | | | | Lace Monitor |
| 3.4 Serpentaria | | | | Shingleback |
| 3.5 South American Aviaries | | | | Eastern Blue-tongued Lizard |
| 3.6 African Waterhole | | | | Eastern Snake-necked Turtle |
| 3.7 Chimpanzee Park | | | | Green Tree Frog |
| 3.8 Gorilla Forest | | | | Dainty Green Tree Frog |
| 3.9 Wild Asia | | | | Green and Golden Bell Frog |
| 3.10 Himalayan Mountains | | | | Splendid Rainbowfish |
| 3.11 Cats of Asia | | | | Pacific Blue-eye |
| 3.12 "Dog Row" | | | | Redback spider |
| 3.13 Bear Canyon | | | | Golden orb-web spider |
| 3.14 Giant Tortoises | | | | Huntsman Spider |
| 4 Transport | | | | Bird-eating spider |
| 5 See also | | | | Wolf Spider |
| 6 References | | | | White-tail spider |
| 7 External links | | | | Net-casting spider |
| // | | | | Black house spider |
| History | | | | Daddy Long Legs |
| Giraffes in front of Sydney's skyline. | | | | Desert Scorpion |
| Rustic Bridge in 2009. | | | | Rainforest Scorpion |
| The first public zoo in New South Wales opened in | | | | Praying Mantis |
| 1884 at Billy Goat Swamp in Moore Park, on a site | | | | Black House Ant |
| now occupied by Sydney Boys High School and | | | | Meat Ant |
| Sydney Girls High School. Inspired by a 1908 visit to the | | | | Grasshopper |
| Hamburg Zoo, the secretary of the zoo, Albert | | | | Phasmids |
| Sherbourne Le Souef, envisioned a new zoo based on | | | | Giant Burrowing Cockroach |
| the bar-less concept. After realising that the Moore | | | | American cockroach |
| Park site was too small, the NSW Government | | | | Centipede |
| granted 43 acres (17 ha) of land north of Sydney | | | | Garden snail |
| Harbour. A further 9 acres (3.6 ha) were later | | | | Mealworm |
| granted in 1916. | | | | Other Wild Australia |
| Taronga is an Aboriginal word meaning beautiful view. | | | | One of the Dingos at Taronga (2007) |
| Rustic Bridge | | | | Red Kangaroo |
| The "Rustic Bridge" was opened in 1915 and was one | | | | Eastern Grey Kangaroo |
| of Taronga Zoo's earliest landscape features. It was | | | | Tammar Wallaby |
| the main way in which visitors could cross the natural | | | | Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby |
| gully that it spans. Early photographs show it as a | | | | Goodfellow's Tree-kangaroo |
| romantic pathway secluded by plantings. The rustic | | | | Emu |
| effect was created by embedding stones in the wall | | | | Malleefowl |
| and like the Aquarium, its design was reminiscent of | | | | Sacred Kingfisher |
| Italian grottoes. A tunnel under the bridge that originally | | | | Southern Cassowary |
| connected the Upper and Lower Aquariums has long | | | | Eclectus Parrot |
| been blocked at both ends and is also very popular. | | | | Red Lory |
| Later additions and changes | | | | Rainbow Lorikeet |
| A critical review in 1967 led to a new emphasis on | | | | Purple-crowned Lorikeet |
| scientific conservation, education and preservation. | | | | Red-rumped Parrot |
| New exhibits were built starting with the Platypus and | | | | Victoria Crowned Pigeon |
| Nocturnal Houses, waterfowl ponds and walkthrough | | | | Diamond Dove |
| Rainforest Aviary. A Veterinary Quarantine Centre | | | | Common Bronzewing |
| was built as was an Education Centre (funded by the | | | | Blue-faced Honeyeater |
| Department of Education). Previous attractions such | | | | Regent Honeyeater |
| as elephant rides, miniature trains, monkey circus and | | | | Striated Grasswren |
| merry-go-round gave way to educational facilities such | | | | Saltwater Crocodile |
| as Friendship Farm and Seal theatre. | | | | Great Southern Oceans |
| In the mid-1980s, a cable car was installed that allows | | | | Leopard Seal |
| visitors to view the zoo and Sydney Harbour. It runs | | | | California Sea Lion |
| from the bottom of the park close to the ferry wharf, | | | | Australian Sea Lion |
| and transports passengers to the top end of the zoo. | | | | Australian Fur Seal |
| 2000 Masterplan | | | | New Zealand Fur Seal |
| In 2000, TCSA commenced a 12-year $69 million | | | | Australian Pelican |
| master plan, the majority of which is being spent at | | | | Fiordland Penguin |
| Taronga Zoo. The first major master plan item was | | | | Little Penguin |
| the Backyard to Bush precinct. Under the plan, the Zoo | | | | Moore Park Aviary |
| received five Asian elephants from the Thailand | | | | Northern Palm Squirrel |
| Zoological Park Organisation for breeding purposes, | | | | Mandarin Duck |
| education, long-term research and involvement of | | | | Lady Amherst's Pheasant |
| conservation programs. The plan has met opposition | | | | Swinhoe's Pheasant |
| from environmental activists in Thailand, who | | | | Luzon Bleeding-heart |
| blockaded the trucks hauling the elephants to Bangkok | | | | Serpentaria |
| International Airport for their flight on June 5, 2006. The | | | | Freshwater Crocodile |
| elephants along with other Asian rain forest specimens | | | | Komodo Dragon |
| are housed in the "Wild Asia" precinct which opened in | | | | Mitchell's Water Monitor |
| 2006 and aims to immerse visitors in an Asian rain | | | | Short-tailed Monitor |
| forest environment. | | | | Eastern Water Dragon |
| A marine section, Great Southern Oceans, opened in | | | | Coastal Bearded Dragon |
| April 2008. | | | | Chameleon Dragon |
| Zoo Friends | | | | Central Netted Dragon |
| Zoo Friends offers support in form of volunteers and | | | | Tawny Crevice Dragon |
| fund raising for both Taronga and Western Plains Zoo. | | | | Frilled Lizard |
| Members are offered behind-the-scenes experiences | | | | Basilisk |
| at the Zoo and unlimited Zoo entry. Members are also | | | | Sailfin Lizard |
| eligible to volunteer to help at the Zoo. | | | | Green Iguana |
| Notable Events | | | | Rhinoceros Iguana |
| Platypus Birth | | | | Fiji Banded Iguana |
| In February, 2003 it became the second zoo in | | | | Fiji Crested Iguana |
| Australia to breed the platypus. | | | | Gila Monster |
| Elephant Birth | | | | Anaconda |
| Luk Chai at five months old. | | | | Jackson's Chameleon |
| At 3.04am on July 4th 2009 Thong Dee, an Asian | | | | Veiled Chameleon |
| Elephant gave birth to a male calf named Luk Chai. It is | | | | Scheltopusik |
| the first calf ever born in Australia. Thong Dee is one | | | | Eastern Blue-tongued Lizard |
| of the 8 Elephants imported into Australia to participate | | | | Night Skink |
| in the Australasian Conservation Breeding Program. | | | | Hosmer's Skink |
| Taronga is expecting a further two calves to be born | | | | Land Mullet |
| in the next two years. The baby elephant is a major | | | | Cunningham's Skink |
| tourist attraction, with thousands of visitors attending | | | | Giant Cave Gecko |
| the zoo just to see him. | | | | Rough Knob-tailed Gecko |
| Animals and exhibits | | | | Tuatara |
| Taronga Zoo has about 340 species and over 2600 | | | | Reticulated Python |
| individual animals. They are housed in a large variety of | | | | Amethystine Python |
| exhibits, including: | | | | Green Python |
| Wild Australia | | | | Boa Constrictor |
| Australian Wetlands | | | | Taiwan Beauty Snake |
| Black-necked Stork | | | | Rhinoceros Viper |
| Little Pied Cormorant | | | | Eyelash Viper |
| Brolga | | | | Egyptian Cobra |
| Australian Pelican | | | | Corn Snake |
| Royal Spoonbill | | | | Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake |
| Pacific Black Duck | | | | Taipan |
| Chestnut Teal | | | | Red-bellied Black Snake |
| Blue-billed Duck | | | | Black-headed Python |
| Australian Wood Duck | | | | Stimson's Python |
| Australian Shelduck | | | | Collett's Snake |
| Plumed Whistling Duck | | | | Fierce Snake |
| Water Whistling Duck | | | | Desert Death Adder |
| Black Swan | | | | Broad-headed Snake |
| Cape Barren Goose | | | | Arafura File Snake |
| Magpie Goose | | | | Star Tortoise |
| Australian Walkabout | | | | Elongate Tortoise |
| A Peacock displays to male Red Kangaroo, 2007. | | | | Matamata |
| Red Kangaroo | | | | Eastern Snake-necked Turtle |
| Tammar Wallaby | | | | Northern Snake-necked Turtle |
| Swamp Wallaby | | | | Broad-shelled River Turtle |
| Agile Wallaby | | | | River Cooter |
| Red-necked Wallaby | | | | Saw-shelled Turtle |
| Emu | | | | Short-necked Turtle |
| Koala Encounters/Koala Walkabout | | | | Green Tree Frog |
| Koala | | | | Red-eyed Tree Frog |
| Short-beaked Echidna | | | | White-lipped Tree Frog |
| Quokka | | | | Eastern Dwarf Tree Frog |
| Platypus House | | | | Green and Golden Bell Frog |
| Platypus | | | | Cane Toad |
| Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat | | | | South American Aviaries |
| Water Rat | | | | Brazilian Agouti |
| Spinifex Hopping-mouse | | | | Green-winged Macaw |
| Australian Nightlife | | | | Sun Conure |
| [[Tasmanian Devil | | | | Nanday Conure |
| Red-tailed Phascogale | | | | Brown-throated Conure |
| Bilby | | | | Razor-billed Curassow |
| Long-nosed Bandicoot | | | | African Waterhole |
| Long-nosed Potoroo | | | | Sun Bear |
| Brush-tailed Bettong | | | | Pygmy Hippopotamus |
| Common Ringtail Possum | | | | Brazilian Tapir |
| Squirrel Glider | | | | Common Zebra |
| Yellow-bellied Glider | | | | Giraffe |
| Feathertail Glider | | | | Bongo |
| Greater Stick-nest Rat | | | | Barbary Sheep |
| Black-footed Tree-rat | | | | Ostrich |
| Plains Rat | | | | Egyptian Goose |
| Spinifex Hopping-mouse | | | | Helmeted Guineafowl |
| Ghost Bat | | | | Chimpanzee Park |
| Tawny Frogmouth | | | | Chimpanzee |
| New Caledonian Giant Gecko | | | | Gorilla Forest |
| Australian Rainforest Aviary | | | | Western Lowland Gorilla |
| Rainbow Lorikeet | | | | De Brazza's Monkey |
| Musk Lorikeet | | | | Wild Asia |
| Eclectus Parrot | | | | Asian Elephant |
| Australian King Parrot | | | | Silvery Gibbon |
| Crimson Rosella | | | | Francois' Langur |
| Double-eyed Fig-Parrot | | | | Fishing Cat |
| Paradise Riflebird | | | | Binturong |
| Wonga Pigeon | | | | Oriental Small-clawed Otter |
| Topknot Pigeon | | | | Chital |
| Superb Fruit-Dove | | | | Malayan Tapir |
| Emerald Dove | | | | Grey-headed Flying Fox |
| Brown Cuckoo-Dove | | | | Green Peafowl |
| White-headed Pigeon | | | | Kalij Pheasant |
| Red-browed Finch | | | | Golden Pheasant |
| Blue-faced Parrot-Finch | | | | Red Junglefowl |
| Buff-banded Rail | | | | Chukar Partridge |
| Black-breasted Buttonquail | | | | King Quail |
| Regent Bowerbird | | | | Buff-banded Rail |
| Eastern Whipbird | | | | Mandarin Duck |
| Noisy Pitta | | | | Ruddy Shelduck |
| Black-faced Monarch | | | | Water Whistling Duck |
| Pacific Koel | | | | Cattle Egret |
| Australian Bush Birds | | | | Glossy Ibis |
| (Now removed to build Walk-through Avairy) | | | | Royal Spoonbill |
| King Quail | | | | Sacred Kingfisher |
| Painted Buttonquail | | | | White-bibbed Ground Dove |
| Green Pygmy-Goose | | | | Luzon Bleeding-heart Pigeon |
| White-browed Crake | | | | Superb Fruit-Dove |
| Banded Lapwing | | | | Nicobar Pigeon |
| Pacific Golden Plover | | | | Pied Imperial Pigeon |
| Black-winged Stilt | | | | Red Lory |
| Laughing Kookaburra | | | | Australasian Figbird |
| Sacred Kingfisher | | | | Red-whiskered Bulbul |
| Forest Kingfisher | | | | Metallic Starling |
| Rainbow Bee-eater | | | | Clamorous Reed-Warbler |
| Pheasant Coucal | | | | Pekin Robin |
| Glossy Black-Cockatoo | | | | Tri-coloured Mannikin |
| Musk Lorikeet | | | | Java Sparrow |
| Little Lorikeet | | | | Koi |
| Turquoise Parrot | | | | Rosy Barb |
| Swift Parrot | | | | White Cloud Mountain Minnow |
| Superb Fruit-Dove | | | | Medaka |
| Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove | | | | Himalayan Mountains |
| Wonga Pigeon | | | | Red Panda |
| Topknot Pigeon | | | | Snow Leopard |
| Emerald Dove | | | | Himalayan Tahr |
| Bar-shouldered Dove | | | | Cats of Asia |
| Peaceful Dove | | | | Fishing Cat in Taronga (2007) |
| Brush Bronzewing | | | | African Lion |
| Crested Pigeon | | | | Sumatran Tiger |
| Noisy Pitta | | | | Binturong |
| Eastern Spinebill | | | | "Dog Row" |
| Noisy Friarbird | | | | Dhole |
| Blue-faced Honeyeater | | | | Fennec Fox |
| New Holland Honeyeater | | | | Pygmy Hippopotamus |
| Striped Honeyeater | | | | Meerkat |
| Crimson Chat | | | | Bear Canyon |
| Variegated Fairy-wren | | | | Kodiak Bear |
| Eastern Yellow Robin | | | | Giant Tortoises |
| Hooded Robin | | | | Aldabra Giant Tortoise |
| Grey Shrike-thrush | | | | Andean Condor |
| Black-faced Cuckoo-Shrike | | | | The Taronga Zoo ferry wharf |
| Silvereye | | | | The latest addition to Taronga Zoo is the newly |
| Clamorous Reed-Warbler | | | | awaited Meerkat pups. |
| Eastern Whipbird | | | | Transport |
| Diamond Firetail | | | | The Taronga Zoo ferry services are, for many |
| Red-browed Finch | | | | tourists, the preferred mode of travel to the |
| Plum-headed Finch | | | | zoo.[citation needed] Passengers disembarking at the |
| Double-barred Finch | | | | ferry wharf, located on Bradleys Head Road, can |
| Chestnut-breasted Mannikin | | | | enter the zoo via a cable car or connect with local |
| Satin Bowerbird | | | | State Transit bus services. Sydney Ferries offers |
| Regent Bowerbird | | | | combined "ZooLink" tickets covering ferry fares, park |
| White-browed Woodswallow | | | | entry and cable car ride. |
| Creatures of the Wollemi | | | | See also |
| Platypus | | | | Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Taronga |
| Short-beaked Echidna | | | | Zoo |
| Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby | | | | Western Plains Zoo |
| Australasian Grebe | | | | Taronga by Victor Kelleher, a work of fiction using |
| Hardhead | | | | Taronga Zoo as its setting |
| Masked Lapwing | | | | References |
| Bush Stone-curlew | | | | ^ adb online |
| Little Pied Cormorant | | | | ^ The Book of Sydney Suburbs, Compiled by Frances |
| Laughing Kookaburra | | | | Pollen, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, |
| Sacred Kingfisher | | | | Published in Australia ISBN 0-207-14495-8, page 181 |
| Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo | | | | ^ National Multimedia |
| Gang-gang Cockatoo | | | | ^ Daily Telegraph staff (July 25, 2008). "Taronga Zoo's |
| Scaly-breasted Lorikeet | | | | new seal and sea lion show has a messages". The |
| Eastern Rosella | | | | Daily Telegraph. |
| Superb Parrot | | | | ^ |
| Red-rumped Parrot | | | | External links |
| Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove | | | | Official website |
| Wonga Pigeon | | | | Zoo Friends, a supporter of the Zoo, offers |
| Brush Bronzewing | | | | membership and volunteer opportunities |
| Dollarbird | | | | Daily Telegraph feature-section on Taronga |
| Australasian Figbird | | | | Zoov d e |
| Noisy Pitta | | | | Sydney landmarks |
| Superb Lyrebird | | | | Buildings and Structures |
| Black-faced Cuckoo-Shrike | | | | Convention and Exhibition Centre Finger Wharf |
| White-browed Babbler | | | | Hyde Park Barracks Queen Victoria Building |
| Satin Bowerbird | | | | Observatory Mint Opera House Harbour Bridge |
| Regent Bowerbird | | | | Sydney Tower Town Hall War Memorial The |
| Striped Honeyeater | | | | Toaster Kirribilli House Parliament House World |
| Regent Honeyeater | | | | Square World Tower General Post Office (No. |
| Diamond Firetail | | | | |