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PASSION INTO PURPOSE As an Animal Adopter, you can help us look after one of your favourite species — both at our zoos and in the wild. WORDS
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any of our Zoo Members have a favourite animal they like to check in with whenever they visit the zoo properties. Perhaps it’s the lofty giraffes on the savannah at Werribee Open Range Zoo, or the elusive Platypuses playing hide-andseek at Healesville Sanctuary. And who among us can resist taking a stroll past the wide-eyed, playful lemurs at Melbourne Zoo? For Zoo Member and donor Shyama Jayaswal, it was the orangutans at Melbourne Zoo that captured her eldest child’s attention from a young age. As a regular visitor to the Orangutan Sanctuary, her son would sit, mesmerised, observing the animals
