Check this out! Our most adventurous enclosure design yet – Tiger Temple. Home to our five majestic tigers (three Sumatrans, two Bengals), the Tiger Temple provides an amazing opportunity for you to get up close with these critically endangered animals.
Our Tiger Temple is built to represent a dilapidated South-East Asian temple with two massive Thai dogs at the entrance and bamboo galore! It is an opulent setting to showcase our big cats, and we know you will be amazed at how beautiful this area is!
Here at Australia Zoo we know enrichment is everything, especially when dealing with our big cats who are stealthy hunters and can be very energetic in the wild. In the Tiger Temple we are constantly entertaining our cats with new toys, our keepers running around with treats and their own swimming pool (it’s even heated in winter!).
Every day you can see our tigers swimming in the only underwater viewing enclosure for tigers in the Southern Hemisphere. They just love playing and splashing in their swimming pool! Sumatran tigers use the water to cool off during the warm summer days. Once their body temperature has dropped they are ready to play! Their energy levels soar, and they just love tearing into toys and chasing their keepers.
Tiger Temple is 80m long and 20m wide, so it provides lots of space for our big cats to find mischief. The enclosure is glass on two sides so everyone gets a great view of them showing off! We also have a grandstand, so you can take your time and watch all the action unfold. Our big cat handlers love to show off so we keep them in the enclosure too, to show you just how high our tigers can jump!
Tigers are highly endangered in the wild, and we have our big cats here with the aim to start a breeding program. We also hope that when you visit the Zoo you will fall in love with our big cats too, and want to help us save them.
Don’t forget, Tiger Temple is also home to our three drop-dead gorgeous Asian Elephants – Bimbo, Siam, and Sabu. You can feed our girls twice a day – at 10.30am near Cootha the wooden crocodile, and at 2.45pm at their home, Tiger Temple.
It’s all for the price of admission, and Australia Zoo is the only place in the Southern Hemisphere where you can experience all this!
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| Arjuna, along with his two brothers Khan and Manas, were the first litter of tigers to arrive at Australia Zoo. Being hand-raised since the young age of two weeks, the handlers establish a very close relationship with the tigers. | Australia Zoo is one of very few places around the world that has human interaction with its tigers. Here we discuss; Leash Training, Toy Work, Tigers Love Water, Milks, and Relaxing. |
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| Want to find out more about Tiger Conservation? Australia Zoo is committed to Tiger Conservation and is already actively involved in projects. Click here to find out more! | Would you like a big cat experience? Australia Zoo holds a big cat experience every morning before the Zoo opens. For your chance to get up close and have your photo taken with these beautiful creatures, check this out. |
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| Learn more about tigers and cheetahs! We have lots of information about these two amazing big cats on our Amazing Animals page. | Want to know more about what our tigers and cheetahs have been up to? You can read their diaries here. |