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Media Coverage-

Recent Awards-

  • Rated "Fodor's Choice" by Fodor's 2007 The Carolinas and Georgia guidebook (17th edition.)  Fodor's describes the "Fodor's Choice" rating like so:  "As travelers we've all discovered a place so wonderful that its worthiness is obvious.  And sometimes that place is so unique that superlatives don't do it justice:  you just have to be there to know.  These sights, properties, and experiences get our highest rating."
Past Awards-

New Exhibits-

 Fern Valley Trail: Hike a 1/4 mile path thru a Southern Appalachian Forest, a natural home to North American plants and animals!

New Animals-

Frilled Dragon - an arboreal lizard from northern Australia and New Guinea.  Known for the large hood that it displays when it is needs to defend itself.

Ridge-Tailed Monitors - Monitors, also called 'goannas,' are found throughout Australasia.  27 species live in Australia itself, the ridge-tailed being one of those species.

"Pach" - an albino Bennett's Wallaby. Pach has solid white fur, pink eyes and nose, and he joined our mob from a zoological park in Holland! Albino animals are uncommon in the wild; we are excited to have Pach at our Center! Pach is on exhibit in the "Aussie Walkabout," where he lives with Sophie, a normal-colored Bennett's Wallaby.

Crested Wood Partridges - small partridges found in the Indonesian rainforest.  You can see our pair in the "Billabong Encounter" exhibit.

 

Recent Births/Hatchings-

Potoroos - 1 joeys born February 2008

Bourkes Parakeets- 3 hatched February 2008.

Bettongs - 1 joey born January 2008.

Dama Wallabies - 1 male "Fonzie" and 1 joey in pouch

Bennett's Wallabies - 1 male joey at foot and 1 joey in pouch

Red Kangaroos, Western Grey Kangaroos, and Eastern Grey Kangaroos in pouches.

 

 

 

Hi-Res Images

 

Please contact Debbie Lawrence for further information, arranging media visits,
and passwords to hi-res photographs.
706-265-6100  ●  tours@kangaroocenter.com
222 Bailey-Waters Road, Dawsonville, Georgia 30534