Walkabout Creek Wildlife Centre
The Walk-About Creek Wildlife Centre (at the Mount Nebo Road, The Gap, entrance to Brisbane Forest Park) has an information and education centre for Australian wildlife, a large walk-through aviary, aquariums and enclosures for wildlife (including a section for Australian nocturnal animals).
Australian wildlife on display at the Walk-About Wildlife Centre includes Australian native birds, a Platypus, Sugar Glider, Wallabies, Pademelons, Wombat, Yellow-bellied Glider, Spotted-tail Quoll, Brush-tailed Phascogale, Bandicoot, Potaroo, Snakes, Lizards, Turtles and fish (including Lungfish).
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