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Recent News

From socials:

The zoo is caring for a female Little spotted kiwi that is being treated at the vet clinic for anaemia. She’s been at the zoo since May and is responding positively to treatment.

The zoo now has 0.1 Tasmanian devil (Cassia), following the death of Clove. She was euthanised due to a tumour growing into her skull. The tumour was not caused by Devil Facial Tumour Disease.
 
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Four Ring-tailed Lemurs have been born at Wellington Zoo; two sets of twins to first-time mothers Muwasi and Ravi: Log into Facebook | Facebook
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Wellington Zoo have the largest lemur exhibit in the country, so they’ll be plenty of room to expand this troop into the future.

Considering this exhibit once housed a troop of baboons in the 20’s, seeing a handful of lemurs has been a let down, but they’re at least breeding them to build up numbers. Combined with the potential to import Red ruffed lemur down the line (something I hope Auckland Zoo will also do), there’s the potential to create something decent here.
 
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Recent News

From socials:

The zoo is caring for a female Little spotted kiwi that is being treated at the vet clinic for anaemia. She’s been at the zoo since May and is responding positively to treatment.

The zoo now has 0.1 Tasmanian devil (Cassia), following the death of Clove. She was euthanised due to a tumour growing into her skull. The tumour was not caused by Devil Facial Tumour Disease.
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The Little spotted kiwi has returned to Zealandia following successful treatment at the zoo:

From socials:

After 4 months of inpatient care, our most precious patient has been released back to her home at Zealandia.

You may remember the Little spotted kiwi who came to The Nest Te Kōhanga back in May. When she arrived, she was very weak and suffering from anaemia.

Little Kiwi has made a full recovery, thanks to the work of our wonderful Vet team. Some of the team were able to accompany her to Zealandia, to capture this very special moment on camera.
 
Zoofan15 said:
The Little spotted kiwi has returned to Zealandia following successful treatment at the zoo:

From socials:

After 4 months of inpatient care, our most precious patient has been released back to her home at Zealandia.

You may remember the Little spotted kiwi who came to The Nest Te Kōhanga back in May. When she arrived, she was very weak and suffering from anaemia.

Little Kiwi has made a full recovery, thanks to the work of our wonderful Vet team. Some of the team were able to accompany her to Zealandia, to capture this very special moment on camera.
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Is there any publicly accessible footage of this significant release that you know o??
 
Niki Hastings said:
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Footage of the release:

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From Zealandia's socials:

The kiwi was found near the boatshed on the Heritage Lawn several months ago in poor body condition and was taken to Te Kohanga for treatment. The team there became very fond of the manu/bird while they cared for her for four months and were thrilled to watch her return home and scoot off into the ngahere/forest last week!
 
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Ring-tailed lemur twins have been born:

The zoo now has six Ring-tailed lemur infants.

The latest birth takes the zoo’s conspiracy to 1.4.6 lemurs - joining adult male (Zeus) and adult females (Felana, Volana, Ravioli and Mawusi).

Source: Wellington Zoo’s socials
 
Snow Leopard Update

The Snow leopards are now arriving in March 2023.

From socials:

Initially, construction on the Snow Leopard habitat was due to be complete In December, with Asha and Manju arriving shortly afterwards. Unfortunately, due to the relentless wet weather during July and August and other unavoidable delays, we can no longer make this timeline.

Our updated programme shows that the Snow Leopard habitat will be completed in February 2023, with Asha and Manju arriving in March 2023.

We can’t wait to welcome Asha and Manju to Wellington Zoo in March, and while we are disappointed about the construction delay, we know that this will give us the best outcome for the habitat, visitors and the Snow Leopards.
 
Ring-tailed Lemur Update

A fourth set of twins have been born, meaning all four females in the troop have now given birth to twins. The troop now numbers 1.4.8 lemurs.

This article also gives some insight into the zoo’s succession planning. They plan to acquire an unrelated male to breed with the females and the first generation daughters of Zeus (current breeding male).

I was hoping this would be the plan given the size of the exhibit and what a spectacular sight a large Ring-tailed lemur troop would be.

Wellington Zoo 'in shock' after birth of four sets of lemur twins
 
Zoo Announces Death of Cheetah Brothers

Sad news today from socials:

We are very sad to announce that this morning we said farewell to our beloved Cheetahs, Cango and Kunjuka.

In recent months, Cango and Kunjuka's health had deteriorated.They both showed symptoms of progressive arthritis and Kunjuka had chronic kidney disease; which are common in older cats of all species.

The Veterinary and Carnivore teams made the decision to euthanise them on medical grounds as animal welfare is of utmost priority at Wellington Zoo.

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Cango and Kunjuka were born 2009 at Orana Wildlife Park. They were the zoo’s third male coalition, following on from Charlie and Delta; and Asante and Etosha.
 
Pygmy Marmoset Birth

Reported on socials:

Wellington Zoo are have welcomed a Pygmy marmoset infant.

The parents are their breeding pair, Tunche and Maya, who have proved highly successful - producing triplets in mid-2022 and twins in late-2021.
 
Kiwi will soon make a return to Wellington with two chicks due to arrive in early December. They will be on-show by mid-December:

"We are thrilled to announce that Kiwi are coming back to Wellington Zoo just in time for Christmas. We have two little Kiwi chicks travelling down to the Zoo in early December, and making Twilight Te Ao Māhina their home. Twilight Te Ao Māhina will be reopening for the beginning of the school holidays, mid December! The chicks were born as part of a managed breeding programme to try and boost the population of Kiwi. They'll stay at the Zoo for a few years until they're big enough to survive in the wild."
 
A Sheltopusik has hatched:

From socials:

Christmas has come early at Wellington Zoo, as we welcome a new little scaley friend.

Our female Sheltopusik (legless Lizard), Carlita, has had a little hatchling.

Come and meet Carlita at the Cool Creatures talk at 1:15pm everyday at Hero HQ!
 
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