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Apparently someone has been releasing them, I used to watch a couple of female water dragons which lived by the moat. I was often walking between the greenhouses and animal house area and the CESAR labs (in what used to be the senior genetics area) until mid last year when we relocated to Parkville. There was one female which lived under or near the bridge you cross between the health science building and the animal house area and another just around the corner which would sometimes hang out under the shipping crates near the smaller of the animal houses (nearer to the greenhouses). Water Dragons don't naturally occur anywhere near the Melbourne area, although a few populations now exist because of escapees, including one surprisingly close to the CBD. I considered catching the ones from the moat and giving them to the lost reptiles home, perhaps I should have. There is also a very dense population of feral turtles in the moat (native but non indigenous), as well as a dense population of Long-necked Turtles (which some claim are also not indigenous to the Melbourne area).