I was amused by this sign on one of the gates at Monarto Zoo, an open range zoo in South Australia. At first glance you may be wondering what is so unusual about it. It happens to be on a gate leading into the lions’ paddock! Not the best place to be riding a bike, [...]

Monarto Zoo near Murray Bridge in South Australia has a large pack of African Wild Dogs on display. These colourfully marked animals are native to large parts of southern Africa. Sadly, their numbers have dwindled in recent decades and they number about 5000 individuals in the wild. Some packs are so small they are no [...]

The giraffe herd at Monarto Zoo here in South Australia is quite large. They have bred successfully over recent years and now number well over twenty. I took these photos on a recent visit and I love the shot above. One of the giraffes came up close to the shuttle bus and posed for me, [...]

Monarto Zoo, just a few kilometres from my home in Murray Bridge, is a part of the Adelaide Zoo. Until the 1980s Monarto was a farm, but in the 1990s it became an open range zoo, now the largest of its type in the world.This zoo has a large collection of Chital Deer and similar [...]

Our local Monarto Zoo has a small herd of Chapman’s Zebra on display. On my recent visit I had trouble getting good photos of these lovely animals due to the reflections of the sunlight on the windows of the shuttle bus. These buses take visitors on guided tours throughout the open range zoo, and the [...]