Taronga Western Plains Zoo

Dubbo in Central New South Wales has this zoo that I have been interested in visiting for years since Tony and Tracey told us about visiting here years ago.  Visited Marg and Keith in Wellington whilst passing through the other day.  Lovely to see them keeping so well.

When we heard that one gets a 2 day pass for the zoo (I guess it allows you to see all the feeding/talking attractions) we decided to only spend the one day and so we put the bikes on the back of the truck and rode around the zoo getting our exercise for the day!!!!  I probably enjoyed the day more than Wayne as he says it is not really his type of attraction.  After saying that, he did love watching the siamang apes.  Would you believe they actually "sang for their supper".  The mother starts then the male joins in and even the baby (3yrs old) was also making the noises.  Very unusual to see this loud noises coming from these apes.

You can see the one on the right has its throat (grey area below the head) protruded and that is how they sing.

We also watched the keeper talk/feed at the hippopotamus enclosure and realised how these huge creatures are so endangered and could easily kill when you see their size of the mouth open!!  

Yes, we did only scratch the surface visiting today, but one can also stay at Savannah cabins, billabong camping in tents or a luxury African safari style lodge overlooking the savannah.  The ride took us on a 6km loop road and passed by the many rare, endangered and native animals but we did not want to spend any more to experience the behind the scenes animal encounters and tours provided.