| Crocosaurus Cove | |
|---|---|
 A large saltwater crocodile seen through under-water viewing glass at Crocosaurus Cove | |
| 12°27′44″S 130°50′21″E / 12.46222°S 130.83917°E | |
| Date opened | 2008 |
| Location | Mitchell Street, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia |
| Land area | 50,000 square feet |
| No. of species | 70+ |
| Owner | Mick Burns |
| Website | www |
Crocosaurus Cove is a crocodile (and other reptile) herpetarium and aquarium zoo located in an indoor complex in the city district of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. Its main focus as the facility's name indicates is the tourism drawcard of the crocodiles of northern Australia. The park has a considerable number of saltwater crocodiles including 700kg and 5.1 metre long male Burt, who appeared in 1986 movie Crocodile Dundee and made news in 2018 for 'psychic predictions' outcomes of the 2018 Soccer World Cup by reaching up and grabbing photographs of players which was seen as match and player performance 'predicting'. The facility has also had success with breeding and hatching baby crocodiles including in July 2022 with baby crocodiles hatched to parent crocodiles female Kate and male William. One of the things most well known at the facility which significantly increased visitor numbers is a 'cage of death' experience where paying visitors can swim in water with large crocodiles while protected from physical contact with them by being enclosed behind a glass safety dome. As previously mentioned a significant number of other native Australian reptiles (and a small number of amphibians and fish) are also kept at the facility and publicly exhibited. Mick Burns the owner is also owner of Darwin Crocodile Farm.[1][2][3]
The species kept and displayed at the facility are listed below.
- Reptiles
(Crocodiles)
(Lizards)
- Black-headed monitor
- Centralian blue-tongued skink
- Centralian knob-tailed gecko
- Centralian tree-dragon
- Frilled lizard
- Fringe-toed velvet gecko
- Giant cave gecko
- Hosmer's skink
- Inland bearded-dragon
- Jewelled velvet-gecko
- Lace monitor
- Leopard skink
- Long-nosed water dragon
- Marbled velvet gecko
- Merten's water monitor
- Northern blue-tongued skink
- Northern spiny-tailed gecko
- Perentie
- Pygmy mulga monitor
- Rusty monitor
- Sand goanna
- Spencer's monitor
- Spiny-tailed monitor
- Stokes's skink
- Storr's monitor
- Western blue-tongued skink
- Yellow-throated monitor
(Snakes)
- Black-headed python
- Bredl's carpet python
- Children's python
- Coastal taipan
- Eastern brown snake
- Inland taipan
- King brown snake
- Northern carpet python
- Northern death adder
- Oenpelli python
- Olive python
- Pygmy mulga snake
- Rough-scaled python
- Slaty-grey snake
- Stimson's python
- Water python
- Western brown snake
- Woma python
(Turtles)
- Amphibians
- Fish
Infant saltwater crocodiles on display
Saltwater crocodiles on display
Saltwater crocodiles on display
Western brown snake on display
Inland bearded dragons on display
References
- ↑ Karen McGhee (12 July 2022). "yes crocodiles can be cute". australiangeographic.com.au. Australian Geographic. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
- ↑ James Dunlevie (3 May 2015). "break in at Darwin crocodile tourist park". abc.net.au. ABC. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
- ↑ Lauren Roberts (16 June 2018). "Burt the psychic croc predicts huge Aussie upset at world cup". ntnews.com.au. NT News. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
