Armadale Reptile Centre
Date opened | 1995 |
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Location | Armadale, Western Australia |
Coordinates | 32°10′36″S 116°00′53″E / 32.1766°S 116.0147°ECoordinates: 32°10′36″S 116°00′53″E / 32.1766°S 116.0147°E |
No. of animals | Numbers vary as centre cares for injured and orphaned animals continuously |
No. of species | 120+ (including over 50 species of reptile) |
Website | www |
The Armadale Reptile Centre is a zoological garden in Armadale, Western Australia that focuses on herpetology and wildlife endemic to Australia.
Opened to the public in 1995, the Armadale Reptile Centre houses a large variety of native reptiles and other wildlife with over 50 different species on display including various species of snakes, turtles and lizards as well as emus, parrots, wombats, dingos, bats and a wedge-tailed eagle. The Reptile Centre is also used as a rescue and rehabilitation facility for wildlife that are sick or injured.
Species on display[]
Reptiles at the centre include:
- Dugite
- Gwardar brown snake
- King brown snake
- Spotted mulga snake
- Red-bellied black snake
- Common death adder
- Western tiger snake
- Crowned snake
- Bardick
- Brown tree snake
- Children's python
- Pygmy python
- Eastern small blotched python
- Stimson's python
- Rough-scaled python
- Water python
- Black-headed python
- Woma python
- Olive python
- Southwest carpet python
- Jungle carpet python
- Centralian carpet python
- Boa constrictor
- Fraser's legless lizard
- Burton's legless lizard
- Common scaly-foot
- Broad leaf-tailed gecko
- Thick-tailed barking gecko
- Rough knob-tailed gecko
- Northern giant cave gecko
- Bobtail lizard
- Western blue-tongued lizard
- Northern blue-tongued lizard
- Centralian blue-tongued lizard
- King's skink
- Pygmy spiny-tailed skink
- Long-nosed lashtail dragon
- Gilbert's lashtail dragon
- Ornate crevice dragon
- Boyd's forest dragon
- Western bearded dragon
- Central bearded dragon
- Eastern water dragon
- Frill-necked lizard
- Ridge-tailed monitor
- Black-tailed monitor
- Rosenberg's monitor
- Lace monitor
- Gould's sand goanna
- Perentie
- Red-eared slider
- Oblong turtle
- Eastern snake-necked turtle
- Murray short-necked turtle
- Saw-shelled turtle
- Saltwater crocodile
Amphibians at the centre include:
Mammals at the centre include:
- Domestic donkey
- Domestic pony
- Dingo
- Grey-headed flying fox
- Short-beaked echidna
- Red kangaroo
- Western grey kangaroo
- Euro wallaroo
- Bare-nosed wombat
- Southwestern brushtail possum
Birds at the centre include:
- Emu
- Wedge-tailed eagle
- Nankeen kestrel
- Barn owl
- Australian boobook owl
- Tawny frogmouth
- Laughing kookaburra
- Sacred kingfisher
- Red-backed kingfisher
- Australian magpie
- Peewit lark
- Major Mitchell's cockatoo
- Baudin's black-cockatoo
- Red-tailed black-cockatoo
- Sulphur-crested cockatoo
- Galah
- Long-billed corella
- Western corella
- Little corella
- Eclectus parrot
- Princess parrot
- Bourke's parrot
- Scarlet-chested parrot
- Alexandrine parakeet
- Cockatiel
- Australian bustard
- Bush stone-curlew
- Common pheasant
- Domestic chicken
- Grey butcherbird
- Pied butcherbird
- Black-faced woodswallow
- Dusky woodswallow
- King quail
- Stubble quail
- Peaceful dove
- Laughing dove
- Common bronzewing
- Double-barred finch
- Gouldian finch
- Long-tailed finch
- Painted finch
- Black-throated finch
- Star finch
- Red-headed parrotfinch
- African firefinch
- Diamond firetail
- Orange-breasted waxbill
Freshwater tropical fish on display at the centre are:
External links[]
- Official website
- Armadale Reptile Centre - Western Australia, 6 minute YouTube video of 2013, by Western Australia Now and Then
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