Chester Zoo it's not, but the small zoo run by the Williams family at Kurunda allowed me my first view of marsupials and added to our putative wildlife photo-library (this has improved only marginally since our ace honeymoon seal pictures but we try). They have 18 full grown freshwater crocodiles and different wallabies from tiny to big but it was the Koalas and Wombats that won it for me although as they are nocturnal creatures they are not very zoo friendly. The zoo coped with enticing the wombat out of its hole by the simple expedient of offering food and this allowed us to observe its symbiotic relationship with a particular lizard who has moved into the wombat enclosure. Wombats and Koalas are near relations with huge rear ends of hard cartilage beneath the fur. Sadly there was no platypus. I would love to see a platypus.
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