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WhistlingKite24 said:
Altina Wildlife Park has welcomed the birth of a Bison calf.
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Oh thats awesome! hope they put up a videp of baby Bison soon as the Covid lockdown prevents any non-staff from seeing the calf for the time being. Altina should be very proud of their successes with their species and feel like they are going in the right direction. Was just thinking last night that with all their breeding successes if Altina had future plans in having a Greater One Horned Rhino pair I think their success rate should be evidence that they should be allowed to without importation hurdles as I gather its would be much more difficult for private facilities to be able to, but Altina is doing so well with their current animal species.
 
steveroberts said:
Oh thats awesome
Was just thinking last night that with all their breeding successes if Altina had future plans in having a Greater One Horned Rhino pair I think their success rate should be evidence that they should be allowed to without importation hurdles as I gather its would be much more difficult for private facilities to be able to, but Altina is doing so well with their current animal species.
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Indian rhino are a species that I suspect would do very well in Australia if we had more. Sadly, all hope seems pinned on the pair at WPZ and they have been a pretty useless pair to date, producing just the one hard-won calf that later died. I think if multiple calves where produced other zoos might import the odd animals to make up pairs eventually, but alas its not likely anyone else is going to jump on board. Such a shame. easily my favourite rhino species.
 
toothlessjaws said:
Indian rhino are a species that I suspect would do very well in Australia if we had more. Sadly, all hope seems pinned on the pair at WPZ and they have been a pretty useless pair to date, producing just the one hard-won calf that later died. I think if multiple calves where produced other zoos might import the odd animals to make up pairs eventually, but alas its not likely anyone else is going to jump on board. Such a shame. easily my favourite rhino species.
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Your quite right they would do well in this country if given a real chance I believe there is a little bit of one up-mans ship going on with some of the bigger zoos in the country with proper planning between our zoos one would believe the best option would be see that there are other zoos here with unrelated animals that zoos could work with in breeding animals such as the Indian rhino, why after all these years the only zoo with Francois Langers is Taronga zoo (apart from two spare males at Mogo), was this not the appointed Langer species the ZAA wanted with all other Langer species to be phased out to make room for these!. I also bet that IF Taronga do get Okapis (and I hope they do) they will be the only holder within the region but I really hope I am wrong about this. Why would Melbourne zoo become the only holder of Philippine crocodiles within the region breed some and then send them back to the philippines when there are plenty captives there why not past a few to other zoos and get a real breeding program going, even if they kept some back for further breeding in the future, but now the female has died and they are left with an adult male!! It just appears to me a bit like game playing and who has which flagship species at their zoo, We need to put this type of thinking behind and move forwards with a better plan lets have other zoos with high profile flagship species not just the big boys!
 
Altina Wildlife Park have now announced that their Serval, Layla has given birth to two male kittens. This is her second litter. I assume one of these kittens is the male that is now being hand raised at Wildlife HQ (unfortunately I cannot access the full article).
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Edit: Altina have released more information via social media on the recent birth. The Servals were born on the 26th June. The zoo has confirmed that one of the male kittens (Mowgli) moved to Queensland as an ambassador animal and the other kitten with stay at the zoo until he is one, and will then be moved to another zoo as a breeding animal.
Layla, our imported female Serval from Africa, has welcomed her second litter of kittens – this time twin boys!
These kitten cuties have come at a challenging time in the world but have brought sunshine and smiles to Altina.
Our twin boys where born right on time on the 26th June 2020.
At 6 weeks of age mum weaned her kittens and one boy moved out of home with his 2 older brothers Peter & Max and travelled up to Qld to become ambassador animals for their rare species!
The 3 will be greatly missed but one baby boy remains with his older sister Michelle, mother Layla & Father Hasani.
The baby boy will need a name soon so please keep an eye on our social media sites for details on how to name this gorgeous boy.
Layla, Michelle & the little bouncing kitten can be possibly seen on our everyday tours from this week onwards and it will be a site not to be missed!
African born ‘Layla’ & Australian born ‘Hasani’ are second time parents,
first time round with triplets and now with twins which was unexpected and
are proving to be quiet a hand full!
‘Layla’ was imported by Altina Wildlife Park 2 years ago to help add diversity to the Australasian bloodlines and having bred again, bears testament that she loves her home!
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WhistlingKite24 said:
Altina Wildlife Park have now announced that their Serval, Layla has given birth to two male kittens. This is her second litter. I assume one of these kittens is the male that is now being hand raised at Wildlife HQ (unfortunately I cannot access the full article).
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Edit: Altina have released more information via social media on the recent birth. The Servals were born on the 26th June. The zoo has confirmed that one of the male kittens (Mowgli) moved to Queensland as an ambassador animal and the other kitten with stay at the zoo until he is one, and will then be moved to another zoo as a breeding animal.
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Small video of the mother and young :

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=237370197679043
 
WhistlingKite24 said:
Altina Wildlife Park have now announced that their Serval, Layla has given birth to two male kittens. This is her second litter. I assume one of these kittens is the male that is now being hand raised at Wildlife HQ (unfortunately I cannot access the full article).
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Edit: Altina have released more information via social media on the recent birth. The Servals were born on the 26th June. The zoo has confirmed that one of the male kittens (Mowgli) moved to Queensland as an ambassador animal and the other kitten with stay at the zoo until he is one, and will then be moved to another zoo as a breeding animal.
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The male Serval kitten has been named Tafari (which apparently means awe-inspiring). A much nicer name compared to his siblings (Max, Peter, Michelle and Mowgli).
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Altina Wildlife Park have welcomed the birth of another Bison calf.
Baby boom! Bison calf.
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Source: Altina Wildlife Park's Facebook page
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I found an article that can be accessed with further information about the recent births. The two Zebra foals were born to females Askari and Sharni a few days apart. The foals have been sexed as 1.1. The article also summarises some of the zoo's recent births (some of which haven't been announced on here):

Recent Births: two Zebra foals, two Przewalski's Horse foals, four Scimitar-horned Oryx calves, two Addax calves, two Bison calves, six Barbary Sheep lambs, two Eland calves, twin Ring-tailed Lemurs, twin Common Marmosets and a Maned Wolf pup!

Pregnancies: Giraffe, Meerkat, unspecified species of antelope and deer

Full article: From antelopes to zebras, this is a legitimate baby boom
A number of endangered species have welcomed babies including a maned wolf pup, two Mongolian wild horse foals, two ring tail lemurs, two marmoset monkeys four scimitar oryx calves and two critically endangered addax antelope calves.

There's also two water buffalo calves, two American bison calves, six Barbary sheep lambs one Texas long horn calf and two eland antelope calves.
"And still so many expecting mothers ranging from meerkats, deer and antelope species and even a giraffe," Mrs Surian said.
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