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Perth Zoo Perth Zoo is the custodian of 1300 animals on the South Perth site and supports multiple projects in the wild to help save wild animals and wild habitats.
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17/11/2025

This baby Hairy Marron is pea-sized perfection 🫛

Behind-the-scenes in our collaborative breeding program, our teams are watching over 94 craylings for the season.

These critically endangered crustaceans start life as tiny as a pea, but they can grow up to 38cm long when fully matured!

📷Keeper Tammy

15/11/2025

Turns out a wheelbarrow full of giraffe and zebra poo is actually the BEST when you're a dingo pup.

Sunny and Luna’s noses were working overtime!

📷 Keeper Kaelene

14/11/2025

Come along with Keeper Marty as she takes us through a training session to wrap up Puteri Caring Week 🧡

As an older lady, Puteri's dedicated carers work very hard to ensure this beautiful ape stays happy and healthy.

Not only do these sessions let us provide stress-free proactive healthcare, but they also help build strong trusting relationships.

Puti always has the choice to take part, and her carers say she loves the extra one-on-one time. And each session always finishes with a bunch of her favourite tasty treats for a job well done!

Go Puteri! 🙌

13/11/2025

No hands, no worries 😉

Giraffes spend a LOT of their time eating, and can munch through up to 75kg of leaves and twigs each day.

They have prehensile lips and tongues, which means they can grasp and grip onto the branches and rip the leaves off with ease!

It’s Orangutan Caring Week, but to us it’s PUTERI Caring Week!🥰We aren’t supposed to have favourites, but this Sumatran ...
12/11/2025

It’s Orangutan Caring Week, but to us it’s PUTERI Caring Week!🥰

We aren’t supposed to have favourites, but this Sumatran Orangutan has a very special place in our hearts.

Puti was the very first orangutan born here at Perth Zoo, and now at 55, she’s the oldest in our colony.

She was born in 1970 and has lived quite the life! Through our role in the regional breeding program, she’s had six babies over the years and is an excellent mum.

Two of her offspring, Utama and Teliti, still live here today. And Puteri actually made world history in 2006 when her offspring Temara was the very first zoo-born Sumatran Orangutan to be released into the wild!

These days, our primate carers are focused on treating her to the very best every day. She loves to paint, is super food-focused and enjoys a daily morning cup of fruit tea.

Thanks to incredible trusting relationships, her carers help keep her in tip-top shape with teeth brushing and dental flossing, regular nail filing and even a skincare routine to keep her dry skin moisturised.

We’d like to say a big thank you to Puteri’s incredible carers for always giving this special orangutan their all!

Happy Puteri Caring Week 😉

Bringing the Pilbara to Perth Zoo 🙌A brand-new immersive habitat space is coming soon - students, tourists and visitors ...
11/11/2025

Bringing the Pilbara to Perth Zoo 🙌

A brand-new immersive habitat space is coming soon - students, tourists and visitors will be able to step into the Pilbara's iconic red desert and get up close to its unique wildlife right here in South Perth!

Get to know our Sumatran Orangutan family this Orangutan Caring Week 🧡
10/11/2025

Get to know our Sumatran Orangutan family this Orangutan Caring Week 🧡

What a mammoth week it's been! Moving Putra Mas has been a whole Zoo effort over a number of years and we're so proud of...
07/11/2025

What a mammoth week it's been!

Moving Putra Mas has been a whole Zoo effort over a number of years and we're so proud of our incredible teams for making it happen.

And a jumbo thank you to YOU, our amazing Perth Zoo community 🩶

You've blown us away with your love and support over the past few days, and we've loved interacting with all of you!

It's a bittersweet time for us to say goodbye to elephants but knowing we have the community support means the world to us. Thank you for understanding why we made this decision, it's always been about putting the elephants first 🫶🏻🐘

Now that Putra Mas is settling in at Monarto Safari Park, we’re going to take a much-needed rest! Thanks again for all your love and support over this mammoth week ❤️

A jumbo update from Monarto Safari Park 🙌
06/11/2025

A jumbo update from Monarto Safari Park 🙌

05/11/2025

Keeper Steve 💚 Putra Mas
Trumpeting his approval for his new home 🐘

04/11/2025

After 42.5 hours on the road, we've arrived at Monarto Safari Park 🐘

Putra Mas was the perfect pachyderm passenger! 🩶

04/11/2025

Putra Mas has crossed the border, rolling into South Australia! 🐘

The big guy has been powered by a mammoth amount of raisin bread and plenty of keeper catch-ups! 🍞

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Founded in 1898, we are an iconic conservation attraction of Perth. We have changed with the times and grown from a place of recreation and fascination to one of education, conservation and inspiration. Today we are one of the world’s leading conservation zoos.