Zoo Tours: Australian Adventure | Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
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EPISODE 125
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G'day boomers and flyers!
We're off to Ohio for another wild round of the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo! We've been through their rainforests, watched elephants walk across a guest path, and even stood right under a tiger - this episode features some of the world's cutest creatures. The multi-sectioned Australian Adventure opened in 2000, which brought 8 acres of the land down under right to you! There are plenty of 'Australian Adventures' across the states and over time, the idea has become a cookie cutter concept. Cleveland does things a little different: their adventure features Dingoes, a livestock ranch that corresponds with a fully furnished Victorian style home, a 55 foot tall walk-thru baobab tree, a walkabout always full of joeys, a walk-thru aviary and a side by side display of a Koala family, and a Tree Kangaroo.
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Enjoy!
Species List
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1. Miniature Horse
2. Dingo
my all time favorite Australian themed exibit is the one at fort wayne becsues i went there ever since i was 3 and it brings back memories
3. Alpaca
4. (Barn and Petting Zoo): Pygmy Goat, Domestic Donkey, Miniature Donkey, Southdown Sheep, Mini Nubian Goat
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5. Barn Owl
6. Laughing Kookaburra, Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
dingoes exhibit.
7. Bennett's Wallaby, Wallaroo
8. Red Kangaroo
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9. Western Grey Kangaroo
10. Emu
I saw dingos at Fort Wayne and it was chewing on a kong toy lol.
11. Crested Pigeon, Budgerigar
12. Queensland Koala, Woylie
My favourite australian attraction would have to be the Australasia Pavilion at my local, the Toronto Zoo. It doesn't just have a field with kangaroos, wallabies, and emus, but as it name suggests, a building that highlights reptiles and amphibians, birds, and even insects of the continent, way more then other australian exhibits show, and has pretty good interpretives.
Okay mind you, I haven't visited many other australian exhibits, besides Granby Zoo's in Quebec. Still, that's pretty good itself, with high amounts of theming and a big south pacific aquarium in it.
13. Matschie's Tree Kangaroo
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Lack of trees for koalas also means that starve. They only eat very particular eucalypt tree varieties, and only new growth at that. They also each require hundreds of trees per a koala to survive.
The Wilderness Trek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1jRF6dJaRY&list=PLfEeUwcoEhrk9-2HBbJlx50yUEZyVS-c3&index=4
The Rain Forest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3pQs6HN8i4&list=PLfEeUwcoEhrk9-2HBbJlx50yUEZyVS-c3&index=5
I’m Australian 😅
Sources:
Wholly Bill: https://www.flickr.com/photos/30706946@N00/31038240505
I have been to the Australian house at Brookfield zoo, but it's been awhile, so I am going to go with Fort Wayne's Children zoo; I loved the dingos and the walkabout.
Yagga Tree Photos: http://www.play-scapes.com/correspondent_post/serpent-slide-cleveland-metroparks-zoo/
Reinberger Homestead Photos: https://redbrickroadstudio.com/blog/Cleveland-Zoo
What happened to woolly bill?
Misc: http://casesblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/australian-adventure-at-cleveland-zoo.html
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Favorite Australian exhibit has got to be the Platypus exhibit at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. Only place in the world, outside of Australia, where you can see them
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5:44 Wallaby
@abeceda103I've been to Cleveland Zoo several times. I enjoyed my visit every time.
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@ziaho678I have to be biased and say that Taronga Zoo here in Sydney has a great Australian precinct! We have the southern oceans (Australian sea lions, blue penguins, New Zealand fur seals), a Tasmanian devil breeding centre, two different kangaroo/emu walkthroughs with reds and greys, several aviaries, wombats, echidnas and a lot of koala exhibits! It’s also going to have a newly remodeled section and nocturnal house opening in the next year or so. If you’re ever in Australia, bring your batteries! Echidnas are my absolute favourite Aussie animals.
@jesss79300:35 Red kangaroos are not only the largest macropod, but they're my favorite animals.😁 They're also iconic from the land down under and they're marsupials which means they raise joeys in pouches.😎👍👍👍
@ronzooadventures1692Kind of sucks. No wombats, no Tasmanian devils, no emu, no platypus, no quoll, no Quokkas, no Echidna nor any of the rare Australian snakes and lizards. And the infamous saltwater crocodile that gives the crocodile hunter his fame.
Yes, I like the wallaby, roos, koala, and kookaburra. But that about sums up Australian section.
And farm animals are available in almost all farms, not just Australians' so I do not count them.
I’m a Jurassic park fan but I’m not really sure when that koala call was used in the movie, but if I had to take a guess, I’ll say when the Tyrannosaur eats a Gallimimus.
@savannahvarns2126Could you do the Atlanta zoo in Georgia?
@DefHumanYou’re right about the giraffes 🦒
@thepatrioticbrothersdivegp4743Due to personal biased working there I would say the nocturnal house at Columbus zoo
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Trivia Answer: The scene where the koala sound was used for the T-rex in Jurassic Park was were the T-rex eats the lawyer who was using the restroom to hide away from Rexy. (Rexy’s the name of the T-rex for the first and rest of the Jurassic Park/World movies btw)
@ArtistSince05Can you please go to lion country safari
@olimarlover58Suggestion:go to memphis zoo and see animal of the night
@sophs1822it wasn't that big
@DailyDoseofMinigames2105Great tour! Always nice to see my home zoo on the channel. Also for anyone looking to visit the Cleveland Zoo, the yaga tree and house have been closed since COVID started. I don’t know when they will be back.
@SchmalloryThere used to be echidnas in with the kolas too, but they got sent off to another zoo a couple of years ago.
@kevineisele2809The koala reminds me of the sloth at Wonders of wildlife aquarium. You have to go there. It is basically an indoor zoo.
@incredastudios72392:28: Is it me, or do the dingos in the exhibit look like Australian cattle dogs?
@nicholaslienandjaja1815Amazing video! 🦘
@agustin091My local zoo actually has wallaroos
@iloveautumn9682Been to this zoo several times absolutely love it.
@craftyfox1959Bye bye lil Sebastian 😭
@Steveofthejungle8Best Australian Exhibit? Healesville Sanctuary in Victoria Australia. Only shows animals from Southern Australia - every exhibit.
Animals include platypus, echidna, 2 species of wombat, 4 species of glider, Leadbeaters possum, over a dozen species of macropod, ( wallaby, bettongs, potoroo and kangaroo), bandicoots, ghost bats, antechinus, dasyurids and quolls ( marsupial cats) Tasmanian devils, rahkali, kultarr, koala and dingo. Birds include lyrebird, bustard, jabiru, brolga, 7 species of lorikeet, 13 species of honeyeaters, heaps of parrot species, waterbirds, Australian wrens, robins and quail - most of which have never been exhibited outside of Australia.
I want to know the answer to the Jurassic Park question! The sound that koala made sounded like when the raptors were chirping in the kitchen, but you said T Rex not velociraptor. So do tell, I'm curious!!
@gnuxThe Roadhouse in Columbus, with the kiwi, tree kangaroo, and wombat
@MarcoAnguloistheGOATMy favorite Australia exhibit is Walkabout Australia at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park because they have the only platypus outside Australia
@fishtaco4170Its such a shame that the Yagga tree was closed! That was a staple of my Cleveland zoo visits as a kid! This was the newest part of the zoo while I was growing up until they added the Elephant crossing so it was the most memorable part for me!
@abbyginge03Thanks for another fun tour through Clevland Zoo, this Australia themed really does stand out from the others I've seen; especially given the fact that they have 7 SPECIES of Marsupials (One of which I've yet to see)! Busch Gardens is the only place I've seen a Wallaroo in the flesh, and as far as I can tell, there's only one in Buch's Kangaroo Habitat.
As for my favorite Australian themed habitat, two come to mind. There is the Busch Gardens Kangaroo trail I just mentioned, But I got to give my number one favorite to the Posner Austraila Center at Zoo Miami. It may not be as big or as elaborate as other Australia themed areas I've seen, but it does have a good diversity of Aussie animals for me to see. I got a closer look at Koalas, and saw my very first Wombat, Tree Kangaoo, and Singing Dog there.
Wow! 5 species of macropods!
@simonj3413In Israel we have an entire zoo that's based around Australia called Gan Garoo which had one of the oldest koalas in the captivity
@tearex2556Glad you took another tour to my home zoo! Also I have about a month ago while volunteering there, I saw a bush kangaroo sleeping in a little burrow on the floor part of the gum-tree hideout. That area used to have an echidna for several years. And I only saw that critter like maybe once or twice growing up.
@matthewhorvath4684Love my home zoo! This was about 10 years ago, but on a cool spring day my friend and I had a Wallaby walking and hopping along with us on the path through the Walkabout!
@michaelbucknell2548I have seen the bettong in the koala habitat.
@wgmcewenOHGotta Say KC Zoo's Australia, while some areas could use a facelift, it comes with an aviary, large emu exhibit, dingos, wallabies, tree kangaroos, camels, and most of the exhibits placed inside of a really large kangaroo yard
@TheRandomZooVisitor