People love visiting our breeding laboratory here at the Australian Butterfly Sanctuary. The sheer size of our programme is mind boggling, and most of all, when seeing all these caterpillars, most people find it fascinating that such a creature could transform itself into the beautiful butterfly. In fact, the caterpillar has all the equipment, by [...]
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Best job in the World – May 2011
by admin on May 16, 2011 | Comments Off
What a week we have coming up in Port Douglas, North Queensland. It’s Carnivale time; my first one so I am really excited. We will be doing 4 events this year, 3 more than last year so the whole crew are flat out getting ready. The theme is based around Alice in Wonderland so there is [...]
Cookie Monster Rainbow Serpent
by Wildlife Editor on April 28, 2011 | Comments Off
At the Cairns Wildlife Dome, we recently we had a 100% success rate in the birth of our spotted python eggs. Our two female spotted pythons laid 15 eggs each, and with the help of Rainforestation Nature Park’s incubator, all 30 eggs hatched. We are finding homes for most, but we have kept two.  They [...]
Volunteers road trip to the worlds oldest Rainforest
by admin on April 19, 2011 | Comments Off
Right after breakfast at the Wildlife Habitat in Port Douglas, we got in the van and headed for the Daintree, the worlds oldest rainforest. On our way there we stopped at one of the many small rivers and went for a swim… Freezing, but after a late night the day before, it cleared up our [...]
The Orchard Butterfly Caterpillar
by admin on April 18, 2011 | Comments Off
Those beautiful butterflies that we all admire as they flit around our gardens, have completed a long and arduous journey in order to finally be the beautiful creatures that they are. Firstly, a caterpillar has to eat it’s own way out of its eggshell. If the caterpillar is lucky, its mother will have laid it on [...]
Eco-librium – Volunteers on video
by Wildlife Editor on April 18, 2011 | Comments Off
This is Eco-librium with a difference. This week we chat with staff and volunteers from the Wildlife Habitat about the work they’re doing to protect our native fauna, and to educate visitors to the property. We talk with two people who are part of a volunteer program with Wildlife Habitat which allows international visitors to [...]
Santa stops at The Wildlife Habitat
by Wildlife Editor on December 24, 2010 | Comments Off
Even at his busiest time of the year, Santa was able to stop at The Wildlife Habitat at Port Douglas and say g’day to everyone there. .
by Wildlife Editor on December 20, 2010 | Comments Off
A female butterfly is an expert when it comes to finding a plant on which to lay her eggs. She needs to be, as if she gets it wrong, her offspring will not go on to become adults. In fact, laid on the wrong plant, a caterpillar will most likely starve until it dies. So, [...]
Snowy the Kookaburra
by Wildlife Editor on November 30, 2010 | Comments Off
We have something quite unique at the Cairns Wildlife Dome. A white laughing kookaburra named Snowy. He makes a spectacular site, especially when you get the chance to see him with his friends our other laughing kookaburra and the blue winged kookaburra. They sound awesome when all are calling together. Snowy is a wild bird [...]
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by Wildlife Editor on November 30, 2010 | Comments Off
Butterfly Blogs Did you know that a caterpillar grows to about 27,000 times the size it was when it first emerged from its egg? Caterpillars are essentially eating machines, they eat and eat and eat, shedding skins as they outgrow them. They are the ultimate consumers, however, they are very fussy when it comes to [...]
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