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Sydney Zoo

Zoo in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Field	Value
name	Sydney Zoo
logo	Sydney Zoo Logo.png
image	Internal_view_of_Sydney_Zoo,_2020.jpg
image_caption	Internal view of the zoo
slogan	A unique animal encounter and educational experience
date_opened
location	Bungarribee, Western Sydney Parklands, Sydney. New South Wales, Australia
coordinates
area	16.5 ha
num_species	100+
annual_visitors	800,000 (forecasted estimate)
members	ZAA
owner	Privately-owned
management	Jake Burgess (CEO)
website
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the zoo in Western Sydney

Sydney Zoo is a zoo in Bungarribee in Greater Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Sydney Zoo is located 38 km west of the Sydney central business district (Sydney City Centre). It occupies a 16.5 ha site. Sydney Zoo is a member of the Zoos and Aquariums Association of Australia and New Zealand.

Development

Sydney Zoo was founded in 2015 with an aim to introduce local and international visitors to a range of animal species from all over the world, while also educating on animal welfare and conservation. The zoo has formed a partnership with the Western Sydney University and TAFE NSW.

Sydney Zoo's senior curatorial and animal acquisition team includes current and former presidents of the NSW Fauna and Marine Parks Association (NSW FMPA) and the current president of the International Congress of Zoos (ICZ).

The zoo is subject to the oversight of government agencies including the Animal Welfare Unit of the NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) and the key zoo industry body in Australasia, the Zoo and Aquarium Association (ZAA). The zoo's social programs include school education programs and aboriginal employment. Specific infrastructure to assist in the delivery of these programs includes veterinary facilities, quarantine facilities, extensive feed preparation and storage areas, an educational amphitheatre and disability access.

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Exhibits

Sydney Zoo's exhibit sizes exceed NSW Department of Primary Industries standards by an average of 2.6 times. Sydney Zoo includes over 30 exhibits and a variety of animal species both exotic and Australian native kept in different focus precinct alphabetically listed below.

;Primate Boulevard

Black-capped capuchin monkey
Chimpanzee
Hamadryas baboon
Ringtailed lemur

;Asia

Asian elephant
Asian small-clawed otter
Red panda
Sumatran orangutan
Tiger

;Africa

African lion
African wild dog
Cape porcupine
Cheetah
Dromedary camel
Giraffe
Helmeted guineafowl
Meerkat
Nyala
Ostrich
Plains zebra
Southern white rhinoceros
Spotted hyena
(Capybara also live in an exhibit in this area of the zoo, albeit actually from South America)

;Australia

Common wombat
Dingo
Emu
Kangaroo Island kangaroo
Koala
Parma wallaby
Quokka
Red kangaroo
Southern cassowary
Swamp wallaby
Tammar wallaby
Tasmanian devil
Yellow-footed rock wallaby

;Middle Corridor (Australia Building)

Australian green tree frog
Centralian knob-tailed gecko
Goliath stick insect
Green and golden bell frog
Magnificent tree frog
Northern leaf-tailed gecko
Spiny katydid insect
Spiny leaf insect

;Nocturnal Australia (Australia Building)

Bilby
Common ringtail possum
Eastern quoll
Fat-tailed dunnart
Ghost bat
Greater stick-nest rat
Long-nosed potoroo
Spinifex hopping mouse
Squirrel glider
Yellow-bellied glider

;Reptile House (Australia Building)

Australian scrub python
Black-headed monitor
Boyd's forest dragon
Broad-headed snake
Burn's dragon
Central netted dragon
Centralian carpet python
Common death adder
Diamond carpet python
Eastern brown snake
Frill necked lizard
Gidgee skink
Green tree python
Heath monitor
Inland taipan
Lace monitor
Mertens' water monitor
Perentie
Pygmy spiny-tailed skink
Red-bellied black snake
Rough-scaled python
Shingleback skink
Tiger snake

;Aquarium

Alligator snapping turtle
Australian bass
Banded rainbowfish
Barbour's seahorse
Barramundi
Bicolour blenny
Black phantom tetra
Black-axil puller
Blacktail humbug
Bristlenose catfish
Cleaner shrimp
Common clownfish
Common yabby
Coral cardinalfish
Crimson-spotted rainbowfish
Dusky surgeonfish
Dwarf hawkish
Eastern long-necked turtle
Eastern water dragon
Eel-tailed catfish
Emperor tetra
Fork-tailed catfish
Freshwater angelfish
Giant glassfish
Glowlight tetra
Golden perch
Golden-head sleeper goby
Gulf saratoga
Indo-Pacific tarpon
Jade perch
Leopard wrasse
Little penguin
Longfin eel
Mandarinfish
Milkfish
Mono
Morrison's dragonfish
Murray cod
Murray River rainbowfish
Neon tetra
Olive perchlet
Orange-spot surgeonfish
Pacific blue-eye
Peppermint shrimp
Pig-nosed turtle
Pink anemonefish
Red rainbowfish
Red-spotted blenny
Rummy-nose tetra
Saltwater crocodile
Sand-sifting sea star
Seven-spot archerfish
Silver perch
Sixline wrasse
Snakehead gudgeon
Spotted gar
Spotted scat
Western carp gudgeon
Yellow boxfish
Yellow coral goby
Yellow-eyed mullet
Zebra dartfish

Additionally the zoo has VIP closeup encounters offered for Bolivian squirrel monkeys.

References

Boon, Maxim. (25 November 2019). "New Sydney Zoo announces long-awaited opening date". TimeOut.
"Zoo and Aquarium Association Institutional Members' Directory". zooaquarium.org.au.
(13 November 2017). "Brand new Sydney Zoo commences construction". [[Western Sydney Parklands]].
Evans, Simon. (8 November 2017). "Sydney Zoo backers eye ASX listing as western Sydney booms". [[The Australian Financial Review]].
"Animals".

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