Animals at Taronga
Explore animals at Taronga. Select Taronga Zoo Sydney or Taronga Western Plains Zoo to discover species, habitats and wildlife across each Zoo.
Suitable Foods Guide
Caring for the wild
This guide will help you to identify suitable foods for supplementary feeding of uninjured wild animals where natural catastrophic disaster has temporarily eliminated their food supply.
Caring for the wild
This guide will help you to identify suitable foods for supplementary feeding of uninjured wild animals where natural catastrophic disaster has temporarily eliminated their food supply.
About the suitable foods guide
If a wildlife species is not mentioned in the information below, it is because it is considered unnecessary to offer food to these species, even during times of natural disaster.
Such species include echidnas, snakes, fresh-water and marine turtles and amphibians. Food for fish or invertebrates is not addressed in this data
Helpful and harmful foods per species
This information has been developed with input from ecologists, wildlife veterinarians, wildlife nutritionists and rehabilitators and will be updated as new information becomes available. It was last updated 18th February 2020.
More to explore
Conservation and science programs
Explore Taronga’s conservation and science programs, featuring research, wildlife care and initiatives that support healthy ecosystems and native species.
Taronga Wildlife Hospitals
Taronga’s two Wildlife Hospitals, at Taronga Zoo Sydney and Taronga Western Plains Zoo Dubbo, are responsible for maintaining the health of close to 1,500 wildlife cases every year.
