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About the habitat

Australian Adventures

Australian Adventures is an engaging immersive experience featuring Bennett’s wallabies that will bounce alongside exploring guests. Free-flying budgies and cockatiels welcome and delight, along with playful emu, watchful tawny-frog mouths and singing kookaburras. Yellow-footed wallabies gracefully scale the Australian rock formations showing off their climbing abilities, and a variety of Australian reptiles bask in the sunny habitat.

Discover these special desert species and feel like you're visiting the incredible land down under!

Australia is the driest inhabited continent in the world, with deserts receiving less than 10 inches of rainfall per year. Many similarities exist between Californian and Australian deserts, but the continent’s geographic isolation, long geologic history, and diverse climates result in sustaining a variety of animals that are unique to Australia.

About the habitat

Australian Adventures is an engaging immersive experience featuring Bennett’s wallabies that will bounce alongside exploring guests. Free-flying budgies and cockatiels welcome and delight, along with playful emu, watchful tawny-frog mouths and singing kookaburras. Yellow-footed wallabies gracefully scale the Australian rock formations showing off their climbing abilities, and a variety of Australian reptiles bask in the sunny habitat.

Discover these special desert species and feel like you're visiting the incredible land down under!

Australia is the driest inhabited continent in the world, with deserts receiving less than 10 inches of rainfall per year. Many similarities exist between Californian and Australian deserts, but the continent’s geographic isolation, long geologic history, and diverse climates result in sustaining a variety of animals that are unique to Australia.

Australian Adventures

Animals

you may see

Mammal / Marsupial / Monotremes

Bennett's Wallaby at The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens. Click to see more.

Bennett's Wallaby

Bettong at The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens. Click to see more.

Bettong

Short Beaked Echidna at The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens. Click to see more.

Short Beaked Echidna

Factoid:
Yellow-footed rock wallabies are threatened by predation by foxes and feral cats, habitat fragmentation, wildfires, and drought due to climate change.

Yellow-Footed Wallaby at The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens. Click to see more.

Yellow-Footed Wallaby

Avian

Factoid:
A Bird With Many Hidden Talents

Emu at The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens. Click to see more.

Emu

Kookaburra at The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens. Click to see more.

Laughing Kookaburra

Factoid:
The tawny frogmouth is named for its wide, frog-like beak. This nocturnal and carnivorous bird is often mistaken for an owl.

Tawny Frogmouth at The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens. Click to see more.

Tawny Frogmouth

Reptile

Factoid:
The name “dragon” comes from the color of the interior of the mouth. When opened, it gives the appearance of breathing fire. This action is used to deter predators or male rivals during the breeding season.

Bearded Dragon at The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens. Click to see more.

Bearded Dragon

Factoid:
Blue-tongued skinks are threatened by habitat loss, increasing wildfires due to climate change, agricultural toxins, and predation by foxes, dogs, and feral cats.

Blue-Tongued Skink at The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens. Click to see more.

Blue-Tongued Skink