The purpose of the Wildlife park was to take in sick or injured animals and release them back into the wild if they could. If not then they were kept (maybe used as food for the Tasmanian Devils). Animals bred there could not be released. They had a wide variety of animals, birds and fish. Many were available to feed. The handsome goat, pic 1, was the most pushy one. He would run all the other goats off to make sure he got any offered food. Pic 2 is of an Emu (I believe) these animals were pretty sneaky, posing for a photo and then as you raised your camera to get the pic, they would dart out to grab your bag of food. There were a large variety of birds ranging from owls, hawks, cockatoos, pigeons, parrots etc. to finches. Also a large variety of animals you could feed, including deer, burros, miniature horses, bunnies, ducks, geese, ostriches, emus, pigs, goats, kangaroo etc. There were 2 camels and some bison.
All in all it was a great day. I would go back again to this type of wildlife park. They indicated that park visitors were a major source of funding as they were not government supported. Most of the enclosures were just fenced in areas of the land so they had a nice natural environment that extended in some cases, quite far from where people were, thus allowing them to get away if they wanted to. And being that they were indigenous they had a natural environment with the plants, trees and climate that they were naturally suited for.
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