Animals at Home

We're bringing the zoo to you!

We're on a mission to make you smile and Animals at Home may be just be the escape you need.

Bring the zoo to life from anywhere around the world with live cams, keeper talks and other virtual updates.

Virtual Zoo Tours

Enjoy a virtual tour of our three wonderful zoos.

Keeper talks

Join us every week for our animal keeper talk series where you can meet the keepers and learn more about the animals at our zoos.

NEW - Dingos of Healesville Sanctuary

Watch more keeper talks

Virtual animal encounters

Sit down and enjoy being transported to Healesville Sanctuary for the Wade with the Platypus or Werribee Open Range Zoo for a Giraffe Encounter!

While the community focuses on looking after people, we’ll keep looking after wildlife - but we need your help.

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Live animal cams

Check out the 24/7 live streams or watch the limited-time-only appearances from other special guests. If you missed it, you can catch up on what you missed by clicking back on the red line underneath the video.

Can’t see the animals on the live cams? That’s because our animals live in areas that are much bigger than what a camera can capture.

Resident live streams (running 24/7)

Otters at Melbourne Zoo

The Otters are undergoing routine health checks and will be back soon! Please check back at a later date to watch them live!

Welcome Paula, Odie and their Asian Small-clawed Otter family to Animals at Home! If you notice things getting a little rough in the den, don't worry, it's just Papa Odie teaching his new pups all about play wrestling!

Get to know our OTTERS

Paula - female, born June 3 2010 at Frankfurt Zoo
Odie - male, born January 15 2017 at Singapore Zoo
Murphy - male, born February 4 2020
Rodney - male, born February 4 2020
Gunther - male, born February 4 2020
Squid - female, born February 4 2020

Penguins at Melbourne Zoo

Feeding times

Between 9-10.30am and between 3-4pm daily (please note feeding times are subject to change)

Get to know our Fiordland Penguin

Edward - Has a cross beak and loves to be the centre of attention

Fiordland Penguins are about three times larger than Little Penguins and have yellow crests above their eyes.

Get to know our Little Penguins

Miss Wing (female) - Two white wing tags
Nippet (female) - Red and white wing tags
Wicket (Male) - Green and dark blue wing tags
Homer (Male) - Green and yellow wing tags

Giraffes Melbourne Zoo

FEEDing TIMES

8.45am, 12pm and 4pm daily (please note feeding times are subject to change)

Get to know our GIRAFFES

Nakuru (female) - Our biggest Giraffe. Eight years old, born in Auckland Zoo, New Zealand.
Klintun (male) - Our littlest Giraffe. One year old, born in Altina Wildlife Park in NSW.

Snow Leopard cubs (and mum, Miska!) at Melbourne Zoo

Feeding times

The cubs are usually fed sometime between 9am and 10am each morning.

Get to know THE CUBS

After a brief trip to explore a different habitat, Miska and her Snow Leopard cubs, Sikari, Manju and Asha, are back on Animals at Home. The three cubs, Sikari, Manju and Asha, were born on 26 January to first time mum Miska and dad Kang-Ju.

Zebras at Melbourne Zoo

If you can't see the zebras, they're probably off visiting their best friends - the giraffes!

FEEDING TIMES

8.15am, 12pm and 3.45pm daily (please note feeding times are subject to change)

Get to know our zebras

Chozi (male) - 12 years old, look our for his unusual stripe pattern on his legs.
Zuri (male) - 12 years old, Chozi's half brother and generally always with Chozi.
Kwasi (male) - Seven years old and has thick dark stripes and no shadow stripe (thinner grey stripes between black stripes).
Zaire (male) - Four years old and is the smallest and fluffiest.