Healesville Sanctuary, formally known as the Sir Colin MacKenzie Sanctuary, is a zoo specialising in native Australian animals. It is located at Healesville in rural Victoria, Australia, and has a history of breeding native animals. It is one of only two places to have successfully bred a platypus, the other being Sydney's Taronga Zoo. It also assists with a breeding population of the endangered helmeted honeyeater. The zoo is set in a natural bushland environment where paths wind through different habitat areas showcasing wallabies, wombats, dingoes, kangaroos, and over 200 native bird varieties. Guided tours, bird shows and information areas are available to visitors. History Dr Colin MacKenzie (knighted in 1929) set up the Institute of Anatomical Research in 1920 on of land which had formerly been part of the Aboriginal reserve known as Coranderrk. The Reserve passed to the Healesville Council in 1927 and became the Sir Colin MacKenzie Sanctuary in 1934. The first platypus bred in captivity was born in the Sanctuary in year 1943 when it was managed by David Fleay. The park was placed under the management of the Victorian Zoological Parks and Gardens Board on 27 June 1978. In 2009, the sanctuary was threatened by the Black Saturday bushfires, and the sanctuary evacuated their threatened species to Melbourne Zoo. Animals and exhibits General exhibits Spotted-tailed quoll Tasmanian devil Dingo Emu Powerful owl Eastern barn owl Laughing kookaburra Helmeted honeyeater Apostlebird Eastern blue-tongued lizard Ridge-tailed monitor Lace monitor Jacky lizard Burton's legless lizard Common death adder Koalas Koala Short-beaked echidna Parma wallaby Tasmanian pademelon Birds of the bush Orange-bellied parrot Swift parrot Rose-crowned fruit-dove Fan-tailed cuckoo Eastern whipbird Kangaroos Red kangaroo Western grey kangaroo Gang-gang Aviary Gang-gang cockatoo Bush stone-curlew World of the Platypus/Platypusary Platypus Water rat Gippsland water dragon Short-finned eel Macquarie perch Yabby Murray crayfish Woodland Aviary Painted buttonquail Musk lorikeet Purple-crowned lorikeet Common bronzewing Crested pigeon Peaceful dove Sacred kingfisher Variegated fairy-wren Eastern yellow robin Satin bowerbird White-browed woodswallow Chestnut-breasted mannikin Rock-wallaby Brush-tailed rock-wallaby Australian pelican Black swan Chestnut teal Dusky moorhen Magpie goose Pacific black duck Purple swamphen Australian white ibis Arid Birds Scarlet-chested parrot Princess parrot Budgerigar Rainbow bee-eater Variegated fairy-wren Gouldian finch Diamond firetail Painted finch Wetlands Aviary Glossy ibis Yellow-billed spoonbill Cattle egret Wallabies Parma wallaby Red-necked wallaby Swamp wallaby Wombat Closeup Common wombat Short-beaked echidna Brolga Animals of the Night Northern quoll Agile antechinus Fat-tailed dunnart Greater bilby