Check this out! Our most adventurous enclosure design yet – Tiger Temple. Home to our five majestic tigers (three Sumatrans, two Bengals), and our four cheetah cubs, 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 that 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 fast our cheetahs can run, and how high our tigers can jump!

Tigers and cheetahs are both 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.

The Tiger Temple offers viewing times for our tigers throughout the entire day. Our cheetahs can be seen on the shuttle track between 9:30-10:30am and 2-3pm only.

Don’t forget, Tiger Temple is also home to our three drop-dead gorgeous Small-eared Asian Elephants – Bimbo, Siam, and Sabu. You can feed our girls twice a day – at 10:45am 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!

Tiger Conservation

Want to find out more about tiger conservation? Australia Zoo is committed to the protection and conservation of tigers in the wild, and is already actively involved in several international projects. Click here to find out more!

Tiger Interaction

Australia Zoo is one of very few places around the world that has interaction its tigers and their human handlers. Find out more about how our Big Cat Department are bonding with and conditioning their tigers and cheetahs to human interaction.
Leash Training
Toy Work
Tigers Love Water
Milks
Relaxing.

Tiger Encounters

Would you like a once-in-a-lifetime experience with one of our incredible big cats? Australia Zoo holds a big cat encounter 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.

Amazing Animals

Learn more about tigers and cheetahs! We have lots of information about these two amazing big cats on our Amazing Animals page. You can find out all about their habitat, diet, status in the wild, reproduction and more.

Big Cat Diaries

Want to know more about what our tigers and cheetahs have been up to at Australia Zoo? You can read their diaries here. This department NEVER slows down!