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Healesville Sanctuary, formally known as the Sir Colin MacKenzie Sanctuary, is a zoo specialising in native Australian animals. It is located at Healesville in rural Victoria, Australia, and has a history of breeding native animals. It is one of only two places to have successfully bred a platypus, the other being Sydney's Taronga Zoo. It also assists with a breeding population of the endangered helmeted honeyeater.[1]

Healesville Sanctuary
Date opened1934
LocationHealesville, Victoria, Australia
Coordinates37.6822°S 145.5316°E / -37.6822; 145.5316
Websitezoo.org.au/Healesville

The zoo is set in a natural bushland environment where paths wind through different habitat areas showcasing wallabies, wombats, dingoes, kangaroos, and over 200 native bird varieties.

Guided tours, bird shows and information areas are available to visitors.


History


Dr Colin MacKenzie (knighted in 1929) set up the Institute of Anatomical Research in 1920 on 78 acres (32 ha) of land which had formerly been part of the Aboriginal reserve known as Coranderrk. The Reserve passed to the Healesville Council in 1927 and became the Sir Colin MacKenzie Sanctuary in 1934.

The first platypus bred in captivity was born in the Sanctuary in year 1943 when it was managed by David Fleay.

The park was placed under the management of the Victorian Zoological Parks and Gardens Board on 27 June 1978.[2]

In 2009, the sanctuary was threatened by the Black Saturday bushfires, and the sanctuary evacuated their threatened species to Melbourne Zoo.[3]


Animals and exhibits


Tasmanian devil
Tasmanian devil
List of animals
General exhibits
Koalas
  • Koala
  • Short-beaked echidna
  • Parma wallaby
  • Tasmanian pademelon
Birds of the bush
  • Orange-bellied parrot
  • Swift parrot
  • Rose-crowned fruit-dove
  • Fan-tailed cuckoo
  • Eastern whipbird
Kangaroos
  • Red kangaroo
  • Western grey kangaroo
Gang-gang Aviary
  • Gang-gang cockatoo
  • Bush stone-curlew
World of the Platypus/Platypusary
  • Platypus
  • Water rat
  • Gippsland water dragon
  • Short-finned eel
  • Macquarie perch
  • Yabby
  • Murray crayfish
Woodland Aviary
Rock-wallaby
  • Brush-tailed rock-wallaby
  • Australian pelican
  • Black swan
  • Chestnut teal
  • Dusky moorhen
  • Magpie goose
  • Pacific black duck
  • Purple swamphen
  • Australian white ibis
Arid Birds
  • Scarlet-chested parrot
  • Princess parrot
  • Budgerigar
  • Rainbow bee-eater
  • Variegated fairy-wren
  • Gouldian finch
  • Diamond firetail
  • Painted finch
Wetlands Aviary
  • Glossy ibis
  • Yellow-billed spoonbill
  • Cattle egret
Wallabies
  • Parma wallaby
  • Red-necked wallaby
  • Swamp wallaby
Wombat Closeup
  • Common wombat
  • Short-beaked echidna
  • Brolga
Animals of the Night
Cockatoos
  • Red-tailed black cockatoo
Red tailed black cockatoo in flight at Healesville Sanctuary
Red tailed black cockatoo in flight at Healesville Sanctuary
  • Major Mitchell's cockatoo
  • Australian brush-turkey
  • White-headed pigeon
  • Brush bronzewing
  • Wonga pigeon
  • Pacific emerald dove
  • Blue-faced honeyeater
  • Black-faced cuckoo-shrike
Reptile Encounter
  • Brown tree snake
  • Broad-headed snake
  • Chappell Island tiger snake
  • Eastern bearded dragon
  • Eastern blue-tongued lizard
Lyrebird Forest
Larger Wetlands Aviary
Flying Foxes
  • Grey-headed flying-fox
  • Black-winged stilt

References


  1. Menkhorst P, Smales I, Quin B (2003). "Helmeted Honeyeater Recovery Plan 1999–2003". Australian Government, Department of the Environment and Water Resources. Retrieved 21 June 2007.
  2. "Governance and policies". www.zoo.org.au. Archived from the original on 11 October 2019.
  3. Kent, Melissa (6 September 2009). "Fire and flight no turn-off for horny devils". The Age. Melbourne.





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