Zoo News Archive
Summer 2012
Birth: Bristol Zoo Gardens
July
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A baby Ring-tailed Lemur has been born, to mum Roxy. The baby is still too young to have been sexed, and thus named, and can often be seen clinging to mum on the Lemur garden walk-through exhibit. |
Birth: Bristol Zoo Gardens
July
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Other recent births include a baby Golden Lion Tamarin, several Blue Poison Arrow Dart Frogs and Yellow-banded Dart Frogs, 8 Flamingo chicks, 45 Lovebirds, a Mindanao Bleeding Heart Dove, 4 Rainbow Lorikeets, and Azure-winged Magpie, 3 Keas, 3 Little Egrets, and 2 critically endangered Bali Starlings. |
Birth: Highland Wildlife Park
July
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Three Eastern Kiang (aka Tibetan Wild Ass) foals have been born; 2 females called Tara and Nima and a male called Tenzin. They were born to mums Soba, Boshay and Cin-tsha and dad Kham-Bu. |
Birth: Highland Wildlife Park
July
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A male Mishmi Takin calf called Hobbit has been born, to parents Cava and Raci. |
Birth: Howletts: The Aspinall Wild Animal Experience
July
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A baby Black Lemur called Kintana has been born, to parents Aprily and Gasy. |
Birth: London Zoo
July
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A pair of Greater Flamingo chicks called Wenlock and Mandeville have hatched. |
Birth: London Zoo
July
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A brood of 76 Mountain Chicken Frogs, from just two females, have hatched. Once fully grown they will be released back into a protected and disease-free area of the wild, on the Island of Montserrat in the Caribbean. Their parents were rescued and airlifted to London in order to develop a captive population of these critically endangered frogs that are threatened in the wild by the rapid spread of the Chytrid fungus, a disease fatal to most amphibians. |
Birth: Port Lympne: The Aspinall Wild Animal Experience
July
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A Defassa Waterbuck calf has been born, joining the massive baby boom of hoofstock at the Park. Other recent births include baby Eland, Red Lechwe, BArasingha, and Sambar. |
Arrival: Woburn Safari Park
July
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A pair of Asian Short-clawed Otters have arrived. Tambo has come from the Welsh Mountain Zoo, while Kelani has come from the Cotswold Wildlife Park. |
Notes:
Where possible, the dates given are for the event itself, but some zoos do not make this information available, when the date of announcement is used instead.
Seasons: Winter = Jan - Mar, Spring = Apr - Jun, Summer = Jul - Sept, Autumn = Oct - Dec.