Serpentarium Wildlife Park Explained

Zoo Name:Serpentarium Wildlife Park
Date Opened:30 November 2019
Location:St Helens, Tasmania, Australia
Num Species:20≈
Owner:Matthew Lowndes

Serpentarium Wildlife Park is a small reptile park located in St Helens, Tasmania, Australia. The park was established by Matthew Lowndes as a facility to further the general publics education of reptiles through viewing and offering some hands on encounters for visitors with some of the reptiles. The park includes a nursery for incubating and raising captive bred reptiles, a reptile husbandry library, a reptile research station with microscopes and a collection of minerals and cultural artefacts, and a café.[1] [2]

The snake species at the park all belong to the python family and include banded rock python, black-headed python, boa constrictor, carpet pythons (diamond, jungle and northwestern), central carpet python, green anaconda, reticulated python, scrub python, spotted python and tiger python. Other reptiles kept at the park are blotched blue-tongued lizard, eastern bearded dragon, freshwater crocodile, lace monitor, mountain dragon, perentie and star tortoises. Rio a blue-and-gold macaw, eastern grey kangaroos and red-neck wallabies are also residents of the park.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: serpentarium slithers into st helens. Harry Murtough. 29 December 2019. 10 August 2022. theexaminer.com.au. the examiner.
  2. Web site: serpentarium wildlife park. Anonymous. 2020. 10 August 2022. big4.com.au. big4caravanparkstourism.