Taronga Zoo

**Taronga Zoo** is a zoo located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, in the suburb of Mosman, on the shores of Sydney Harbour.

It was officially opened on 7 October 1916. Taronga Zoo Sydney is managed by the Zoological Parks Board of New South Wales, under the trading name Taronga Conservation Society, along with its sister zoo, the Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo.

Divided into eight zoogeographic regions, the 28-hectare (69-acre) Taronga Zoo Sydney is home to over 4,000 animals of 350 species, making it the largest zoo in Australia. It has a zoo shop, a cafe, and an information centre.

## List of Animals

### Wild Australia

#### Australian Wetlands

* Black swan
* Helmeted guineafowl
* Cape barren goose
* Australian wood duck
* Plumed whistling duck
* Wandering whistling duck
* Egyptian goose
* Masked lapwing
* Ruddy shelduck
* Green winged teal
* Pacific black duck
* Hardhead
* South African shelduck
* Dusky moorhen

#### Australian Walkabout

* Red kangaroo
* Tammar wallaby
* Swamp wallaby
* Cape Barren goose
* Eastern grey kangaroo
* Agile wallaby
* Red-necked wallaby
* Emu
* Short-beaked echidna

#### Platypus House

* Platypus
* Common wombat
* Fat-tailed dunnart

#### Australian Nightlife

* Tasmanian devil
* Eastern quoll
* Red-tailed phascogale
* Greater bilby
* Long-nosed bandicoot
* Long-nosed potoroo
* Brush-tailed bettong
* Common ringtail possum
* Squirrel glider
* Yellow-bellied glider
* Feathertail glider
* Greater stick-nest rat
* Plains rat
* Spinifex hopping-mouse
* Ghost bat
* Tawny frogmouth
* Barn owl
* New Caledonian giant gecko
* Diamond Python
* Long-beaked echidna

#### Australian Rainforest Aviary

* Rainbow lorikeet
* Musk lorikeet
* Eclectus parrot
* Australian king parrot
* Crimson rosella
* Double-eyed fig parrot
* Paradise riflebird
* Wonga pigeon
* Topknot pigeon
* Superb fruit dove
* Pacific emerald dove
* Brown cuckoo-dove
* White-headed pigeon
* Red-browed finch
* Blue-faced parrotfinch
* Buff-banded rail
* Black-breasted buttonquail
* Regent bowerbird
* Eastern whipbird
* Noisy pitta
* Black-faced monarch
* Pacific koel

#### Australian Bush Birds

* King quail
* Painted buttonquail
* Green pygmy goose
* White-browed crake
* Banded lapwing
* Pacific golden plover
* Black-winged stilt
* Laughing kookaburra
* Sacred kingfisher
* Forest kingfisher
* Rainbow bee-eater
* Pheasant coucal
* Glossy black cockatoo
* Musk lorikeet
* Little lorikeet
* Turquoise parrot
* Swift parrot
* Superb fruit dove
* Rose-crowned fruit dove
* Wonga pigeon
* Topknot pigeon
* Pacific emerald dove
* Bar-shouldered dove
* Peaceful dove
* Brush bronzewing
* Crested pigeon
* Noisy pitta
* Eastern spinebill
* Noisy friarbird
* Blue-faced honeyeater
* New Holland honeyeater
* Scarlet honeyeater
* Striped honeyeater
* Crimson chat
* Variegated fairywren
* Eastern yellow robin
* Hooded robin
* Grey shrikethrush
* Black-faced cuckooshrike
* Silvereye
* Clamorous reed warbler
* Eastern whipbird
* Diamond firetail
* Red-browed finch
* Plum-headed finch
* Double-barred finch
* Chestnut-breasted mannikin
* Satin bowerbird
* Regent bowerbird
* White-browed woodswallow
* Welcome swallow
* Golden whistler
* Rufous whistler

#### Blue Mountains Bush Walk

* Platypus
* Short-beaked echidna
* Brush-tailed rock wallaby
* Masked lapwing
* Bush stone-curlew
* Little pied cormorant
* Laughing kookaburra
* Sacred kingfisher
* Yellow-tailed black cockatoo
* Gang-gang cockatoo
* Scaly-breasted lorikeet
* Eastern rosella
* Superb parrot
* Red-rumped parrot
* Rose-crowned fruit dove
* Wonga pigeon
* Brush bronzewing
* Dollarbird
* Australasian figbird
* Noisy pitta
* Superb lyrebird
* Black-faced cuckooshrike
* White-browed babbler
* Satin bowerbird
* Regent bowerbird
* Striped honeyeater
* Regent honeyeater
* Diamond firetail
* Eastern water dragon
* Eastern blue-tongued lizard
* Cunningham's spiny-tailed skink
* Eastern water skink
* Southern leaf-tailed gecko
* Eastern long-necked turtle

#### Backyard to Bush

* Southern hairy-nosed wombat
* Red-necked wallaby
* Spinifex hopping-mouse
* House mouse
* Guinea pig
* European rabbit
* Sheep
* Alpaca
* Goat
* Pig
* Emu
* Budgerigar
* Cockatiel
* King quail
* Chicken
* Wild turkey
* Children's python
* Diamond python
* Red-bellied black snake
* Coastal bearded dragon
* Shingleback
* Eastern blue-tongued lizard
* Eastern snake-necked turtle
* Australian green tree frog
* Dainty green tree frog
* Green and golden bell frog
* Splendid rainbowfish
* Pacific blue-eye
* Redback spider
* Golden orb-web spider
* Huntsman spider
* Bird-eating spider
* Wolf spider
* White-tail spider
* Net-casting spider
* Black house spider
* Daddy long-legs spider
* Desert scorpion
* Rainforest scorpion
* Praying mantis
* Black house ant
* Meat ant
* Grasshopper
* Phasmids
* Giant burrowing cockroach
* American cockroach
* Centipede
* Garden snail
* Mealworm

#### Other Wild Australia

* Tasmanian devil
* Red kangaroo
* Eastern grey kangaroo
* Tammar wallaby
* Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo
* Emu
* Malleefowl
* Sacred kingfisher
* Southern cassowary
* Eclectus parrot
* Red lory
* Rainbow lorikeet
* Purple-crowned lorikeet
* Red-rumped parrot
* Diamond dove
* Common bronzewing
* Blue-faced honeyeater
* Regent honeyeater
* Striated grasswren
* Saltwater crocodile
* Dromedary camel

### Seals in the Wild & Great Southern Oceans

* California sea lion
* Australian sea lion
* Sub-antarctic fur seal
* New Zealand fur seal
* Australian pelican
* Fiordland penguin
* Little penguin

### Reptile World

* Freshwater crocodile
* Komodo dragon
* Short-tailed monitor
* Pygmy bearded dragon
* Central netted dragon
* Tawny crevice dragon
* Frilled lizard
* Basilisk
* Sailfin lizard
* Green iguana
* Rhinoceros iguana
* Fiji banded iguana
* Fiji crested iguana
* Gila monster
* Green Anaconda
* Veiled chameleon
* Scheltopusik
* Eastern blue-tongued lizard
* Night skink
* Hosmer's skink
* Land mullet
* Cunningham's spiny-tailed skink
* Giant cave gecko
* Tuatara
* Reticulated python
* Amethystine python
* Green tree python
* Boa constrictor
* Pacific Ground Boa
* Eyelash viper
* Monocled cobra
* Eastern diamondback rattlesnake
* Coastal Taipan
* Red-bellied black snake
* Black-headed python
* Pygmy python
* Inland Taipan
* Broad-headed snake
* Bellinger River snapping turtle
* Star tortoise
* Elongate tortoise
* Mata mata
* Eastern snake-necked turtle
* Northern snake-necked turtle
* River cooter
* Short-necked turtle
* Australian green tree frog
* Red-eyed tree frog
* White-lipped tree frog
* Eastern dwarf tree frog
* Green and golden bell frog
* Southern corroboree frog

### Savannah (Opened June 2020)

* Plains zebra
* Giraffe
* Helmeted guineafowl
* African Lion
* Fennec fox
* Meerkat

### ANZ Asian Elephant Exhibit & Rainforest Trail

* Asian elephant
* White-cheeked gibbon
* Francois' langur
* Fishing cat
* Binturong
* Oriental small-clawed otter
* Pygmy hippopotamus
* Eastern bongo
* Kalij pheasant
* Golden pheasant
* Red junglefowl
* Chukar partridge
* King quail
* Buff-banded rail
* Mandarin duck
* Ruddy shelduck
* Water whistling duck
* Cattle egret
* Glossy ibis
* Royal spoonbill
* Sacred kingfisher
* White-bibbed ground dove
* Luzon bleeding-heart pigeon
* Superb fruit dove
* Nicobar pigeon
* Pied imperial pigeon
* Red lory
* Australasian figbird
* Red-whiskered bulbul
* Metallic starling
* Clamorous reed warbler
* Pekin robin
* Tri-coloured mannikin
* Java sparrow
* Koi

### Tiger Trek

* Sumatran tiger
* Red jungle fowl

### Primate Islands

* Cotton-top tamarin
* Bolivian squirrel monkey

### Taronga Institute of Science & Learning

* Cotton-top tamarin
* Pygmy marmoset
* Red kangaroo
* Quokka
* Rufous bettong
* Koala
* Short-beaked echidna
* Common ring-tail possum
* Squirrel glider
* Greater bilby
* Diamond python
* Centralian carpet python
* Inland carpet python
* Black headed python
* Spotted python
* Children's python
* Central bearded dragon
* Shingleback skink
* Eastern blue-tongue skink
* Estuarine crocodile
* Eastern long-neck turtle
* Murray short-neck turtle
* Chaco tortoise
* Elongated tortoise
* Ornate box turtle
* Green tree frog
* White-lip tree frog
* Cane toad
* Superb parrot
* Budgerigar
* Gouldian finch
* Zebra finch
* Bush-stone curlew
* Bleeding heart pigeon
* Sooty owl
* Tawny frogmouth
* Spiny leaf insect
* Goliath stick insect
* Giant burrowing cockroach
* Rainforest scorpion

### Upcoming

* Okapi
* African grey parrot

### Former Species

* Barbary sheep
* Himalayan tahr
* Snow leopard
* Greater one-horned rhinoceros

### Conservation Recovery Programs

A number of species are managed off display in efforts for breed and release programs.

* Yellow-spotted bell frog
* Plains wanderer
* Christmas Island blue-tail skink
* Lister's gecko

1. ↑ Import of Okapi for zoo display.