The View of Sydney from Taronga Zoo
Posted by Doug in Travel at 1:54 pm After finding the best accommodation Sydney Australia has to offer, travelers might plan a trip to the Taronga Zoo in order to see the city from afar. The zoo, begun in 1916, is set on nine acres of land and affords a spectacular view of the Sydney skyline, including the world-famous Sydney Opera House. From the Northern bank of Sydney Harbor, you’ll be able to not only enjoy the animals, but all of the panorama of the city itself. It’s no secret to anyone who knows Aboriginal words:The zoo’s name, Taronga, literally means beautiful view.
Over the years, the zoo has undergone any changes and additions, especially after a critical review 42 years ago gave rise to more of a focus on education, preservation, and conservation. Today, the zoo is in the midst of a twelve year $69 million plan to upgrade conditions. Five Asian elephants were provided to the zoo from Thailand in order to breed them, educate zoo patrons, as well as to conduct research. The elephants are currently housed in the precinct known as “Wild Asia” which strives to immerse the zoo patrons in the environment of a rainforest. In July of 2009, an Asian elephant birthed Luk Chai, a male calf, the first ever to be born in Australia. The zoo is hoping the mother, Thong Dee, will give birth twice more in the course of the next two years.
While the Zoo keeps many traditional inhabitants — such as lions and giraffes, zebras and elephants, and so on — they also have an impressive array of native creatures: bandicoots, gliders, and quoll, as well as other rare nocturnal animals. The zoo keeps on hand wombats, koalas, and even a Tasmanian Devil, as well as a Bridled Nail-tailed Wallaby. This latter animal can’t be seen anywhere else but here, and considered at first to be extinct until they were “re-discovered” in 1973, in Queensland.
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