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q Taronga Zoo

This harbourside zoo is home to more than 4,000 animals,
including native wildlife and rare and endangered exotic
species, living in environments closely resembling their natural
habitat. A not-for-profit organization supporting wildlife
conservation, Taronga Zoo offers a daily programme of shows,
keeper talks, animal feedings and behind-the-scenes tours. Its
elevated location provides one of the city’s most spectacular Australian Walkabout
vantage points – take the Sky Safari cable-car ride to Get a close look at kangaroos,
the top entrance, then meander along the wallabies, echidnas and native birds.
winding paths back to the bottom.
Learn about seals at
the Seal Show. Be
prepared to get
splashed if seated
near the front.
Athol Wharf Road
Lower
entrance
Bradleys Head Road
The platypus is one
of only three species of Athol Wharf Road
egg-laying mammals.

Key to Animal Enclosures
1 Main entrance and Taronga Piazza
2 Sky Safari
3 Australian Walkabout
4 Platypus
5 Australia’s Nightlife
6 Blue Mountains Bushwalk
7 Red Kangaroo
8 Tasmanian Devils
9 Backyard to Bush
0 Wombat Burrow
q Saltwater Crocodile
w Cotton-top Tamarins
e Penguins
r Seal Show Bradleys Head Road
t Great Southern Oceans
y Red Pandas
u Rainforest Trail
i Fishing Cat
o Otters
p Asian Elephants
a QBE Free Flight Bird Show Upper entrance
s Sun Bears
d Sumatran Tiger Adventure
f Meerkats Sky Safari
g Giraffes The Sky Safari cable car
gives visitors an aerial
h Chimpanzees view of the zoo. It travels
j Reptile World from the lower entrance
k Koalas near the ferry wharf,
l Welcome to the Wild Theatre reached via a 12-minute
z Taronga Food Market ferry ride from the city,
x Gorillas to the top entrance of
c Lemur Forest Adventure the zoo’s plaza.

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