Exciting new additions at Maru Koala and Animal Park!

Wild Updates: Exciting new additions at Maru Koala and Animal Park!

What’s new at Maru Koala and Animal Park? Quite a lot! This time of year brings the promise of koala joeys peeking from pouches, the first-ever quokka joey born at the park, and more bouncing youngsters in the kangaroo and wallaby mobs. With habitats under construction and new friends to meet, Maru is full of reasons to stop in on the way to Phillip Island.

The koalas are taking centre stage this spring. Three joeys are expected to emerge from their mothers’ pouches in September, giving guests the rare chance to see one of Australia’s most iconic animals at an especially endearing stage. Keep your eyes open, and you might just see one looking back at you!

For those who want to get even closer, Maru now offers a Koala Feeding Experience at 9:00am each morning. Guests enjoy exclusive early entry before the park opens to the public, joining keepers as they deliver fresh gum leaves to the koalas. It’s the best time of day to see the animals awake and active, as they typically spend 18 to 20 hours asleep. Visitors might be lucky enough to touch the coat of a willing koala, definitely capture photographs, and learn all about their conservation status and the threats they face. Each koala is introduced by name by the keeper team, with an introduction to who they are as an individual. Visitors may also have the chance to meet some of the wallabies that share the area.

Maru has also celebrated the birth of its first-ever quokka joey. Quokkas have become a favourite with visitors since arriving at the park, and now guests can look forward to the possibility of seeing a young joey tucked into its mother’s pouch or taking its first steps outside. It’s a big milestone for Maru, with quokkas being both listed as a vulnerable species and a fairly new arrival to the park, having a joey born is proof that the little group is comfortable and happy in their home.

The winter baby boom still hasn’t ended! The free-ranging eastern grey kangaroo mob in the park's walkthrough and its small group of swamp wallabies both have joeys at various stages of development in and out of the pouch.

Looking ahead, sugar gliders will soon join the Maru family. These small, nocturnal marsupials are best known for the membranes that allow them to glide from tree to tree. Their arrival will bring another unique species for visitors to encounter, adding further variety to the animals already on display.

With koala joeys beginning to emerge, the park’s first quokka joey, young kangaroos and wallabies, and ongoing improvements to habitats, Maru Koala and Animal Park is brimming with new reasons to visit. For travellers heading to Phillip Island, it remains the perfect first stop - a place to see Australia’s wildlife up close and make lasting memories before the journey continues.

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