UQ Wildlife Teaching Facility

Thankyou to the amazing vet techs and nurses from UQ Vets for taking such great care of our animals!

We start teaching again for semester 2 2024 this week.
We have lots of exciting new additions at the facility for students to meet.
A big welcome to Charlie and Echo. These little ones have now finished their quarantine period and been in handling training ready to meet our students. We hope you think they are as cute as we do.

Today is world snake day!
Meet Barney one of our snakes out for some sun. Barney is full of sass but once out of his enclosure very patient and curious, overall a great ambassador for snakes and well loved reptile 🐍.

Massive congratulations to Iffy Glendinning
A very special and well deserved award. Our animals are blessed to always have her looking out for them.

As the days get shorter and cooler the nocturnal critters like our squirrel gliders come out earlier. Keep an eye out at night for other nocturnal animals in your area.

Who else gets as excited for a snack of fresh greens as our Guinea pigs?

Introducing Matilda!
This little lady is the newest addition to our teaching family. She has done great with her handling training and looking forward to meeting our students in 2024.
She has been with us for 6 months now, and we can’t wait for you to meet her.

Our teaching budgies love hanging together undercover on these hot days!
It’s a good reminder to ensure all animals have access to cover and cool water.

Today is International Zookeeper day. Thankyou to the team of keepers that work the wildlife facility every single day of the year to look after the animals.

A great opportunity to learn about some of the wildlife and conservation projects currently happening.

How do you recycle your egg cartons?
Our fat tailed Dunnarts love using the ones our keepers bring in as a new hide.

Happy world lizard day!
We love getting the opportunity to teach UQ students about our lizards including their basic husbandry and medical needs and how to handle them safely.