Melbourne Zoo - Exhibits

Exhibits

• Trails of the Elephants: 5 Asian elephants - male Bong Su and females Mek Kapah, Dokkoon, Kulab and Num-oi - share 3 paddocks. There are 2 baby elephants. One, Mali (born 2010) and her half brother (born 2010) who is named Ongard.
• Butterfly House: a greenhouse-style walk-through exhibit for tropical butterflies.
• Orangutan Sanctuary: a rotation exhibit for two families of orangutans (one consisting of pure Sumatran orangutans and the other of Sumatran-Bornean hybrids) and a family of siamangs. The three enclosures are designed to represent an orangutan rehabilitation sanctuary in Sumatra.
• Asian rainforest: the original portion of the Asian rainforest adjoins Trail of the Elephants and includes enclosures for Sumatran Tigers, Oriental Small-clawed Otters and two small aviaries for Asian birds.
• Australian Outback: features kangaroos, emus, wombats, koalas, echidnas, lace monitors and a variety of small bird aviaries.
• Great Flight Aviary: a large free-flight aviary dating from the 1930s. Visitors walk along a boardwalk through three different bioregions representing an Australian rainforest, wetlands and bushland. Significant species include Southern Cassowary, Brolga, Royal Spoonbill, Eclectus Parrot and Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
• Savannah: Giraffes, zebras, ostrich and helmeted guineafowl.
• Lion Park: Four male lions (brothers born in 2000) currently live in this exhibit. Adjoining the lion enclosure is an exhibit for African Hunting Dogs.
• Wild Sea: This $20 million development will provide new exhibits for seals, little penguins, Australian pelicans and Fiddler Rays. With underwater sounds and a projector screen coupled with the beautiful lighting effects it has a calming touch of realism.
• Reptile house: contains a variety of Australian and exotic reptiles.
• African rainforest: the major exhibit at the centre of this area is for Western Lowland Gorillas. Five of the zoo's eight gorillas - silverback Rigo and females G-Ann, Yuska, Julia and Jumanto - live in the exhibit. Three batchelor males - Motaba and his sons Yakini and Ganyeka - have been recently transferred to Werribee Open Range Zoo. Also in the African rainforest is an exhibit for Mandrills and Pygmy hippos. Recently, the African rainforest has seen non-African species - pygmy marmosets, Asian small-clawed otters and European carp - displayed in this area.
• Treetop apes and monkeys: A series of netted enclosures viewed through glass windows from an elevated boardwalk. Species currently include white-cheeked gibbon, red pandas, black-handed spider monkey, black-capped capuchin, black-and-white colobus, black-and-white ruffed lemur and common tree shrew.
• Small Cat alley: a series of relatively small enclosures for small carnivores. Species currently include serval, caracal, fishing cat and binturong.

Other exhibits at the zoo include enclosures for collared peccary, maned wolf, bairds tapir, Indian porcupine, snow leopard, Persian leopard, puma, Syrian brown bear, white-nosed coati, ring-tailed lemur, blue-and-yellow macaw, red panda, little penguin, hamadryas baboon, several species of tamarin, Brazilian agouti, Goodfellow's tree kangaroo, meerkat, quokka, platypus, De Brazza's monkey, Aldabra giant tortoise and bongo.