Meet our keepers and learn incredible facts about some of your favourite animals! Ask our keepers questions and get some wonderful incite and stories about our animals’ individual personalities and behaviour.
Plus hear about the Ballarat Wildlife Park’s conservation work and how you can get involved in protecting our amazing wildlife.
Our weekend timetable also runs on Victorian School Holidays and Public Holidays.
10:00am to 5:00pm
Christmas Day
9:30am to 3:30pm
Christmas Day
Crunch is in an elite group of world heavyweight crocodiles – A true giant of the animal kingdom. It appears that there is much exaggeration when the length and weights of crocodiles are discussed. Crunch was accurately measured by us at 5metres (16.4 feet) in length and 500kg (1102lbs) in weight. He is approximately 65 years of age.
A crocodile of this size has tremendously powerful jaws. Crunch’s jaws exert as much as 3700lbs. of force per square inch – hence the name “Crunch”! A human’s bite pressure has been recorded at 120lbs per square inch. Crocodile tooth pressures of up to 350,000lbs per square inch have been recorded in other heavyweight crocodiles. the measurement for bite force is taken at the rear of the jaws.