The Perth zoo was founded in 1898 on the area of 17 ha. The idea originated a few years earlier the Committee on Acclimatization of Western Australia, who had intended to spend the introduction of European animals to the new continent. Already in 1987 were built caves for the bears, a monkey house, aviaries for a variety of mammals and pens for Guinea pigs. And the first animals were the orangutan, two monkeys, 4 South American ostrich, a pair of lions and a tiger. For the first year the zoo was visited by 53 thousand people, and the history of the zoo – more than a hundred years – it was never closed! The zoo contains more than a thousand animals. Moreover, there are extensive Botanical collection. Among the first of the floral exhibits of the zoo were roses, lupines, tropical plants and palms. By the way, those palm trees that were planted more than a century ago, are still growing in the zoo is about 60 species, including rare palms Canary Islands. Interestingly, here is grown and the culture that goes for animal feed, - lettuce, alfalfa, carrot, onion.

The zoo is divided into three main zones: a tour of Australia, Asian rainforest and African Savannah with a small additional exposures (for example, Birds of South America or Small Primates). All zones that recreate the natural habitat of animals.

In the Australian zone includes the exposition, introducing the inhabitants of the wetlands and bushland of the country, reptiles and nocturnal animals. Here you can see black swans, cernosia storks, Australian cranes, brolga, pied cormorants, mottled ducks and other interesting birds, as well as freshwater crocodiles, turtles and frogs. In this town there is a swimming pool 50 thousand liters of water in which they live penguins and Pacific Golden terns. The inhabitants of the Australian bushland presents ostriches EMUs, koalas, quokka, red kangaroos, echidnas, wombats, wallabies and Tasmanian devils. A separate exposition is devoted to being endangered Australian animal Ambato is the numbat.

In the area of the African Savannah in closed enclosures you can see lions, cheetahs, Grant's zebras, baboons, giraffes Rothschild, radiant turtles, meerkat, hyenas and rhinos. Visitors watch the animals passing along the trail, made in the form of the bed of a dried river.

Asian Rain Forest is home to endangered Asian animals. It is home to Asian elephants, Nepalese red pandas, Oriental bascogetvie otters, Sumatran orangutans, tigers, sloth bears and Gibbons. Perth zoo is investing in the protection of many of these species in the wild. So, his program for the breeding of Sumatran orangutans is considered the most successful in the world in 1970 there were nursed 27 orangutans. In 2006, one of orangutan born at the zoo was released into the wild in Sumatra in the framework of the international program to restore the population of these animals.

Among other conservation programs the zoo – breeding programs Rothschild giraffes, white rhinos and Sumatran tigers. Australian species of animals involved in programs are also generally released.

Interestingly, each zoo visitor can get a huge amount of digital information about the animals.