The Paradise Valley Springs Wildlife Park is a wildlife park built on the vestiges of an old mine. It has several different kinds of animals there, most of which are not native to New Zealand. New Zealand has only 3 native mammals, 3 kinds of bats, 2 of which are vegetarian. This is why there are a lot of flightless birds, such as the national bird, the Kiwi, but also the Pukeko. It also allowed insects to take the role of rodents, so they became pretty big. One of them is the Weta, which can easily get as big as a human hand.
Anyway. In the Paradise Valley Springs Wildlife Parks, there were mostly mammals and fish to be seen, as well as a turkey. Of course there were also some birds native to New Zealand, for example the New Zealand Wood Pidgeon, which is one of the biggest pidgeon species there is. The main attraction are the lions, but there are also Wallabies as well as farm animals.
The animals are all quite used to humans, and if you buy food in the shop, you can also feed most of them.
