Taronga Western Plains Zoo

Taronga Western Plains Zoo A safari adventure with over 300 hectares to explore and over 500 animals Find yourself surrounded by magnificent wildlife on wide open plains.
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Taronga Western Plains Zoo - With over 300 hectares of wild and wonderful bushland and over 500 animals, Taronga Western Plains Zoo offers a safari adventure right in the heart of NSW.

Having your ‘ducks’ in a row: Zoo edition 🤭 📷 Rick Stevens, Keepers Hayley, Steph, Ruby
21/08/2025

Having your ‘ducks’ in a row: Zoo edition 🤭
 
📷 Rick Stevens, Keepers Hayley, Steph, Ruby

Mzuri 🐾🥰
17/08/2025

Mzuri 🐾🥰

Kaari 🐾🥰
16/08/2025

Kaari 🐾🥰

Nguvu 🐾🥰
15/08/2025

Nguvu 🐾🥰

12/08/2025

Happy 🐘🤩

is home to a multi-generational herd of 7 Asian Elephants - with an eighth on the way 🥰

We strive to give our elephants opportunities to build and practice social and cognitive behaviours, including breeding, to replicate as closely as possible how they would live in the wild.

Unfortunately Asian Elephants are endangered in the wild, with populations continuing to decline as a result of poaching, illegal trade, habitat loss and fragmentation, as well as human-elephant conflict. Taronga's elephants serve as an important ambassadors for their wild counterparts, and part of a regional breeding program to maintain an insurance population for this iconic species.

Learn more at our daily keeper talk, or book the Elephant Experience to see firsthand how we care

12/08/2025

Happy World Elephant Day! 🐘🤩

In this video, Asian Elephants Thong Dee and Porntip show off their amazing trunks!

👉 Elephant trunks are remarkably dexterous, with a prehensile (finger-like) tip and whiskers that help sense and manipulate objects
👃 Elephants have approximately 2,000 olfactory receptor genes - five times more than humans and double that of dogs
💪 An elephant’s trunk contains up to 90,000 muscles* and is strong enough to lift items up to 10 times their own body weight

* we used to think the trunk contained over 40,000 muscles, but improved imaging techniques have since proven that number to be much higher!

📹 Keeper Savannah

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10/08/2025

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Bring your cubs to meet ours this Lion cubs Kaari, Mzuri and Nguvu are keeping the pride very busy here at Join us thi...
08/08/2025

Bring your cubs to meet ours this

Lion cubs Kaari, Mzuri and Nguvu are keeping the pride very busy here at

Join us this Sunday 10 August for World Lion Day:
🐾 See the cubs from 10:30am when they go out into our small Pride Lands habitat
🦁 Enter the lions' den on board our purpose-built Pride Lands Patrol Truck with teenage brothers Bahati and Jabari
🤩 Don't miss our special World Lion Day Keeper Talk, with special prizes to give away!

Learn more at https://taronga.org.au/news/2025-08-06/lion-cub-trio-named-time-world-lion-day

07/08/2025

Black Rhino calf Budhi had never tasted watermelon before Sunday 🤯🍉🦏

It's safe to say he loved it, as did his mum Mesi!

Due to their sweet taste, food items like watermelon (as well as banana, carrots and sweet potato) really help in our cooperative health care for large species like Black Rhino! As part of this cooperative care approach, keepers use high-value foods to deliver medications and positively reinforce behaviours such as standing side-on to the fence for an injection or participating in a conscious blood draw.

📹 Keeper Hayley

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Address

Obley Road
Dubbo, NSW
2830

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 4pm
Tuesday 9am - 4pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 4pm
Friday 9am - 4pm
Saturday 9am - 4pm
Sunday 9am - 4pm

Telephone

+61268811400

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