# Ballarat Wildlife Park

- **Country:** Australia
- **Coordinates:** -37.569800, 143.892600
- **Area:** 37 acre
- **Opened:** 1987
- **Location:** Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
- **Zoo Name:** Ballarat Wildlife Park
- **Date Opened:** 1987
- **Num Animals:** 400
- **Num Species:** 60

The park also contains animals not native to Australia, including six meerkats,, and a Komodo dragon. The reptile house holds snakes, lizards and frogs. * Aldabra giant tortoise * Alligator snapping turtle * Alpaca * American alligator * Asian forest tortoise * Australian green tree frog * Australian water dragon * Banded rock python * Bare-nosed wombat * Boa constrictor * Broad-headed snake * Brolga * Brown tree snake * Buff-banded rail * Burmese python * Bush stone-curlew * Central bearded dragon * Common snapping turtle * Dingo * Dyeing poison dart frog * Eastern diamondback rattlesnake * Eastern long-necked turtle * Eastern tiger snake * Eastern whipbird * Eclectus parrot * Emu * Freshwater crocodile * Frilled lizard * Gila monster * Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo * Green anaconda * Green tree python * Indian star tortoise * Indochinese spitting cobra * Inland taipan * Kangaroo Island grey kangaroo * King brown snake * Koala * Komodo dragon * Lace monitor * Little penguin * Magnificent tree frog * Mangrove monitor * Merten's water monitor * Monocled cobra * Noisy pitta * Northern blue-tongued lizard * Pig-nosed turtle * Queensland lungfish * Quokka * Red-bellied pademelon * Red-rumped parrot * Red-tailed black cockatoo * Reticulated python * Rhinoceros iguana * Rusty monitor * Saltwater crocodile * Shingleback lizard * Short-beaked echidna * Southern cassowary * Southern corroboree frog * Southern hairy-nosed wombat * Spiny-tailed monitor * Spotted-tail quoll * Tasmanian devil * Tawny frogmouth * Tiger * Uracoan rattlesnake * Wedge-tailed eagle * White-headed pigeon * Yellow-footed tortoise

![Photo of Ballarat Wildlife Park](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/A235%2C_Ballarat_Wildlife_Park%2C_Ballarat%2C_Australia%2C_wombats%2C_2007.JPG)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballarat_Wildlife_Park (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)