Wildlife World

...Wildlife World

Zoo & Aquarium

I was pleasantly surprised from the very entrance to Wildlife World on a particular weekday in March. At the west entrance, the setting is two ponds on either side filled with some of the most exotic ducks I've seen everywhere in one location. They came from all over the world, and this was only the beginning of the zoo. It had the big guys, too: the rhinos, giraffes and lions and tigers.

It took us four hours to get through the west side of the park. We never made it to the east side before it closed. (The aquarium is open later, but we were too pooped to visit it.)

The park has a train ride, a tram, a zipline and a children's petting section, to name just a few of the highlights.

Wildlife World Zoo & Aquarium is located in Litchfield, in the West Valley.

Mandarin duck, China

The common shelduck

A saddle-billed stork

A ruddy shelduck, from Africa

A male plum-headed parakeet. To the left are the male and female feeding on an orange.

A chiloe wigeon, from South America

A white-faced whistling duck, from sub-Sahara Africa and South America

Above and Left: A female eclectur parrot

Below: A male eclectur parrot; they can be found in Southern Australia

The hyacinth macaw comes from Brazil

This is a white peafowl, otherwise known as a peacock. He (or she) is not considered albino because it has blue eyes. Albinos typically have pink or red eyes.

The scarlet macaw above and the blue and gold macaws both originiate in South America.

Above and Below: The green-winged macaw comes from South America.

Above and Below: the African grey parrot

Above and right: African flamingo

So, what's pretty if you don't have not-so-pretty? The goofy-looking king vulture from Central and South America at least has nice colors to boast of.