The Armadale Reptile Centre is a reptile zoo (featuring a number of other animals) in Armadale, Western Australia that focuses on herpetology and wildlife endemic to Australia (with a few exotic reptile species as exception).
Opened to the public in 1995, the Armadale Reptile Centre houses a large variety of mostly native reptiles and other wildlife with over 50 different reptile species on display, including a large female saltwater crocodile and various species of lizards, snakes and turtles, as well as other animals such as tree frogs, cockatoos, dingoes, emus, marsupials (including kangaroos), owls and wedge-tailed eagles. The centre is also used as a rescue and rehabilitation facility for wildlife that are sick or injured. Klaas and Mieke Gaikhorst built and own the centre, having worked with rescuing and rehabilitating injured or displaced reptiles (and other animals) for more than thirty years.
Species at the centre
Reptiles
Bardick Black-headed python Black-tailed monitor Boa constrictor Bobtail lizard Boyd's forest dragon Broad leaf-tailed gecko Brown tree snake Burton's legless lizard Central bearded dragon Centralian carpet python Centralian blue-tongued lizard Children's python Common death adder Common scaly-foot Crowned snake Darwin carpet python Dugite Eastern snake-necked turtle Eastern water dragon Fraser's legless lizard Frill-necked lizard Gilbert's lashtail dragon Gwardar Jungle carpet python King brown snake King's skink Lace monitor Long-nosed lashtail dragon Murray short-necked turtle Northern giant cave gecko Northern blue-tongued lizard Oblong turtle Olive python Ornate crevice dragon Perentie Pygmy python Pygmy spiny-tailed skink Red-bellied black snake Red-eared slider Rosenberg's monitor Rough knob-tailed gecko Rough-scaled python Saltwater crocodile Sand goanna Saw-shelled turtle Southwest carpet python Spiny-tailed ridge monitor Spotted mulga snake Spotted python Stimson's python Thick-tailed barking gecko Water python Western bearded dragon Western tiger snake Western blue-tongued lizard Woma python
Amphibians Australian green tree frog Splendid tree frog White-lipped tree frog
Others
(Birds)
African firefinch Alexandrine parakeet Australian barn owl Australian boobook owl Australian bustard Australian magpie Baudin's black-cockatoo Black-faced woodswallow Black-throated finch Bourke's parrot Bush stone-curlew Cockatiel Common bronzewing Common pheasant Diamond firetail Domestic chicken Double-barred finch Dusky woodswallow Eclectus parrot Emu Galah Gouldian finch Grey butcherbird King quail Laughing dove Laughing kookaburra Little corella Long-billed corella Long-tailed finch Peewit lark Major Mitchell's cockatoo Nankeen kestrel Orange-breasted waxbill Painted finch Peaceful dove Pied butcherbird Princess parrot Red-backed kingfisher Red-headed parrotfinch Red-tailed black-cockatoo Sacred kingfisher Scarlet-chested parrot Star finch Stubble quail Sulphur-crested cockatoo Tawny frogmouth Wedge-tailed eagle Western corella
(Fish) Frontosa cichlid Perlmutt Red fin borleyi
(Mammals) Bare-nosed wombat Dingo Domestic donkey Domestic pony Grey-headed flying fox Red kangaroo Short-beaked echidna Southwestern brushtail possum Western grey kangaroo Western wallaroo
External links
Armadale Reptile Centre - Western Australia, 6 minute YouTube video of 2013, by Western Australia Now and Then