Rockhampton Zoo, Public zoo in Rockhampton, Australia

Rockhampton Zoo stretches across natural bushland along the Fitzroy River and provides habitats for both Australian and international animal species. The facility houses primates, carnivores, marsupials, and other animals in distinct enclosures and natural zones.

Two male chimpanzees, Cassie and Ockie, arrived at Rockhampton Zoo in 1986. The original 200 m² chimpanzee enclosure was replaced in March 2010 by a 1,000 m² facility with large glass viewing screens, built for $1.3 million and opened by local member Robert Schwarten after the old cage failed Biosecurity Queensland standards. Females Samantha and Holly arrived from Mogo Zoo in 2012, and Alon and Leakey came from Israel in 2015.

The zoo's name for its youngest chimpanzee, Capri, comes from the Tropic of Capricorn, which passes through Rockhampton in the region called Capricornia; a Yeppoon family suggested it. Zookeepers give scheduled talks and feed the animals during the day, and the six chimpanzees are the zoo's main draw.

The zoo sits inside the Rockhampton Botanic Gardens in The Range, so the gardens' paths lead to the enclosures. Zookeepers give talks and feed the animals at set times through the day, so check the times on arrival and plan the route around them. The chimpanzee enclosure has large glass viewing screens.

Capri, born in February 2018 to Leakey and fathered by Alon, was named by a Yeppoon family after the Tropic of Capricorn, on which Rockhampton sits in the region called Capricornia. Her birth was part of an Australian and New Zealand program aiming to raise the chimpanzee population from 51 to 80 over twenty years.