Budapest Zoo opens Australian pavilion
Blue-tongued lizards were watching the air parade of brilliant-feathered king parrots with open mouths at the opening ceremony of the Australian House in the Budapest Zoo on Tuesday.
The new facility, providing a broad cross-section of Australian fauna, was inaugurated by ambassadors Alex Brooking of Australia and Mangasi Sihombing of Indonesia, Mayor Gabor Demszky and Director Miklos Persanyi.
The ceremony was held on Australia Day, the official national day of Australia commemorating the arrival of the first European settlers in the region of Sydney in 1788.
A separate section is reserved for nocturnal animals, including fox-bats and a variety of small marsupials.
The facility is complete with an exhibition about aboriginal culture and the first explorers of Australia.
This is the largest display of Australian fauna in Central Europe, Persanyi said, disclosing that even the garbage in the parrots' cage has been imported from the remote continent.
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