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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

QLD Zoo - Australian Animals

As promised yesterday this post is all about those adorable Australian Animals!


First up, a joey that's way too big for his mothers pouch.  Not sure if you can see in this photo but his legs and tail were sticking out super awkwardly


Can you spot the koala joey? I'd never seen a baby koala before so, yup, I was ridiculously excited!


I'd also never seen an albino wallaby before.
Wallabies are essentially the cuter (smaller) version of a kangaroo :)

 Although this young Kangaroo is pretty darn cute!



Sure you're fitting buddy???

One thing I noticed was how each koala family huddled together. I thought it was super endearing, it wasn't enough for them just to be close they literally had to have some part of their body connecting with another :)


That guy on the left is a curlew - the staff at the zoo, were really helpful in answering questions :)

Kangaroos seem to love being lazy and striking sexy poses!

We also have the coolest lizards, okay maybe that's a lie, chameleons are pretty rad but our guys are spikey and have features like blue tongues!

Ben and I got to dance with the black cockatoo and when I say dance, we basically did this head banging side to side step motion and then he would copy and we would do it again but more outrageously and then he would up his own game - it was pretty amazing! Birds are so clever!

 Baby koala - how flipping cute are they, again one hand on his mumma/papa at all times :)

One more photo of cutie-pie albino!

Ben was like, "you have to get a photo of this goanna with his feather".  Looking back, I can't believe I was almost not going to *gasp*

 More sleeping and...

 more eating. 

There was a rumor that Koalas slept a lot (up to 22 hours a day - trumping cats!) because they got drunk off Eucalyptus leaves but apparently, from a quick google, it's actually to do with needing lots of energy to digest the leaves!

It was fun to get to see them so active!
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Sunday, September 16, 2012

Day 8 - East Coast Nature World



























There were quite a few aggressive birds at the park especially the one above, the Cape Barren Goose! Ben kindly chased it away from me as it was narrowing in one me. Turns out this bird had his wife on eggs in the playground beside, we both felt a bit bad after that but Ben made friends with them and gave them some feed so all was forgotten! The draw card of East Coast World is still to come..stay tuned!



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