Perth Zoo

A great place for a day trip with family and friends.
Before you go, check out some of the close encounters on offer so you can make sure you don’t miss anything. You can feed a giraffe (if they come to you) for $ 5 or get close up to a rhinoceros. I did the rhino for $ 35. I got a behind the scenes look at the exhibit, learnt about the rhino and fed him. Plus got to pat him as well. Such a great way of gaining insight into zoo life. There are limited spaces so you need to purchase you ticket early.
If you want to see a specific animal, check out the website to see what enclosures are closed.
I loved my experience. I walked by the orangutans as one of the free speeches started. The keeper was full of information and was able to get the orangutans to move about so I could see them.
There is not much choice for food so you might want to take a picnic.
The zoo is a great place for young and young at heart.

The Australian walkabout section does give visitors a nice look at native Australian wildlife that otherwise won’t be seen in the metro Perth area. I went on a summer Saturday afternoon and was surprised by how not crowded it was. The animals were out eating their lunch and fairly active! They do have a pretty classic variety of animals, but compared to zoos I am familiar with in the USA I thought many of the enclosured seemed small and in need of renovation. I went with my friend who grew up in Perth and he noticed that much of the signage and infrastructure hasn’t changed in over 20 years… so I think there are areas for improvement. But it’s a decent zoo that will likely make for a pleasant family day trip. I do like that they take the elephants out for walks around the zoo grounds!

This zoo is well laid out. Nice and flat so very accessible for all. Toilets weren’t very clean when I went unfortunately. Good price also, affordable for families. Food prices were ok, food quality was average. Oil used for cooking chips was old so the chips appeared to be cooked but the inside of chips were not.

Ah, I love coming to the Zoo! I just wish it wasn’t so expensive!
Have come here a few times with my little brother and partner. It’s nice to have a walk around and enjoy the animals and surroundings.
Don’t make the mistake I made of going on a Saturday during school holidays! You will be stuck in painfully slow, cry worthy human traffic.

I have seen many zoos and Perth is one of the best that I have been to. Plenty of animals to see, well laid out and has excellent amenties. They have made a huge effort to continually improve the place, and the new orangutan enclosure is one of the best that I have seen.

Get here when they open on a weekend to grab a coffee and walk your kids around to see the animals before it gets too busy. It’s the best kid-​friendly weekend entertainment, especially with a zoo friends membership! The membership is really worth it.

Very nice feel to the zoo. Plenty to see and also a lot of nice events. I was only in the door when they announced that Patricia the elephant was being taken out for a walk around the zoo. As long as you didn’t try touch her you could get very close. Spent the day at Perth zoo and it flew! Great spot.

Perth zoo is amazing.
Wait, I don’t think I said that loud enough.
PERTH ZOO IS AMAZING!!!
There’s not much more I can add to what others have already said, but I do have one bit of advice for zoo visitors.
I used to work at the zoo as a face painter during Zootober (the October school holidays), and after I finished up at the homestead painting screaming, excitable children, I’d wander around the zoo with my face painting basket.
I would always visit the Orangutans without fail. They’re my absolute favourite animals in the world, and, as I found out, very curious. More often than not whenever I sat down at the windowsill and propped my basket up next to me, Pulang (the youngest female) would come right up to the glass to try and see inside my basket. I’d take things out to show her — even once showing her her own reflection in the mirror I keep to show the kids their painted faces.
So my advice is this: if you’re an Orangutan lover, go and visit Pulang (she resides with Puan and their names and details are written on the walls of the enclosure) and take a bag or basket with you to place on the windowsill. You never know, you might get lucky and catch her eye…

The zoo is one of my son’s favourite places in Perth. His love has only increased since watching the movie Madacasgar. He seems to like the idea that the wild and exotic animals are plotting to escape and catch the train to the city.
It isn’t the biggest zoo, but it is one of the nicest I have been too. There are lots of different animals from around the globe. They have 4 main sections, Australia, Asia, South America and Africa.
It is not the cheapest day out, with our family of three costing $ 55 in admission, however we literally spend the whole day there. If you are a regular it is worth looking at zoo membership, for us it costs $ 180 (2 adults, 1 child) — but that includes free entry for a whole 12 months. Well worth it if you are regular.
There are lots of areas for the kids to run around. play on the equipment or have a picnic lunch. A café and gift shop are also available to buy lunch or a souvenir of your visit.

You don’t realise just how good this zoo is until you visit zoo’s in other countries. I really was surprised when I was constantly let down by the Zoos I visited in other countries.
Perth Zoo is small compared to some, but the animals look really well cared for. The areas they live in have had some money spent on them and they look pretty happy.
We visited the zoo in Barcelona around 8 years ago and remember thinking how bad the animals looked, they were all undernourished and depressed.
I really love spending the day here with the kids, they look around bright eyed enjoying the scenes the animals make. We usually bring a picnic and stop for some lunch, as the parks in here are lovely too.
We have come here for Comapny Christmas parties and they are just fabulous, its great to walk around the zoo after a massive BBQ.

You know when you go back to the zoo when your older and suddenly realise that it’s a lot smaller than what you remember as a kid, and the animals always seemed a lot more interesting? I had that experience a few months ago and realised this must mean I’m an adult if a day at the zoo wasn’t the best day of the whole year. It was a scary realisation, but that doesn’t mean the zoo isn’t still awesome fun.
It has all the animals a zoo needs to make up a zoo, tigers, lions, giraffes, zebras, elephants, crocodiles, penguins, orangutans. It’s all pretty spaced out as well so you can spend a good day just strolling around the different enclosures visiting all the animals.
While Perth Zoo is a great excursion for school kids and teachers, and great for parents during school holidays, they also throw a lot of events here. Concerts are sometimes held here, and it is a great venue for it, I came to one once and wish they held more gigs here. It’s also a popular place for weddings and wedding photography.
It’s a really nice place to come to, it’s fun seeing the animals, I’d recommend lemurs and otters for optimal viewing pleasure! And it’s still a great day out (even if the magical sparkle has dissipated a little with old age).

The best thing about Perth Zoo is that it’s open every single day of the year. Perth is a really strange city, in that on Sundays or public holidays almost everything is closed, so there isn’t much to do on days off from work. These are the perfect days to come for a stroll around the zoo — kill a few hours and learn a thing or two in the process.
However, it’s not the best or most impressive zoo. Most of the animals that are here you could see in any rural part of Australia. And a lot of the areas they are kept in are too vast with too many trees — obviously a good habitat for the animals, I know, but if you’re paying to see animals and all you’re seeing is a bunch of seemingly empty areas of shrubbery then you might as well have saved your money and gone to a garden centre. There’s also an annoying waste of space area dedicated to trees only. Hey Perth Zoo, no one comes to see trees in a zoo, the clue is in your name.
Tree overload aside, another positive is that they have free tours that begin twice a day, and it’s clear that the tour guides know their stuff and are extremely passionate about zoology.

The zoo takes me back to a time when I was young and carefree and I had no bills to pay. The animals were amazing. It made you feel like you were in Africa, in the midst of the Savannah. My favourite was the monkeys. They were cheeky, always cracking up and liked to scratch their bums– me in a nutshell. When I told my teacher that she had a serious sit down with my mum to discuss keeping me back a year.
In my more mature age I’ve come to see the zoo as a great place to take the cousins to score brownie points with the family. Also, it’s a gorgeous venue for any events. I recently went to a wedding at the zoo which started in a sunken garden, moved on to drink in the Savannah and ended with a reception in the lovely hall. It was a magical evening, especially when it came to taking pictures on the beautiful merry-​go-​round.
I think the zoo retains that old-​world charm that we are fast learning to appreciate in Perth. Kudos Perth Zoo.

Impressionnant, on peut nourrir les kangooro, les koala magnifique