Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens Animal News
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mstickmanp
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Also Evelyn? I thought Kelly never wanted to mate with her because he saw her as his mom. (Evelyn was Kelly's surrogate mother)
mstickmanp
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Well if Kelly does decide to mate with Evelyn I hope it happens fast, as I can't wait for more babies.
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I was at the zoo today and at the Chacoan Peccary exhibit I got to see a new piglet. I'm not sure when it was born, but it might be less than a week old because last week I was at the exhibit and there was no baby. I will be posting a photo later on, but the photo is blurry because the exhibit was closed which made it hard to take photos.
mstickmanp
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Here is the only good pic I was able to post. The other ones were really blurry.
[thumb=16011;662;DSC09085.JPG]Chacoan Peccaries at the Los Angeles Zoo[/thumb]
[thumb=16011;662;DSC09085.JPG]Chacoan Peccaries at the Los Angeles Zoo[/thumb]
Zoogoer2000
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aw,he's so cute
mstickmanp
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Yup, and he was very tiny and fast. He ran around the exhibit for about 10 mins and the mom and aunt were in high alert making sure nothing went wrong. The father was just being lazy and asleep by a mud wallow.
mstickmanp
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While at the zoo today I found out that the second Chacoan Peccary female gave birth to three piglets sometime during the week, that means that there is 4 piglets on exhibit with three (1.2) adults.
mstickmanp
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I just posted 2 pics of the 4 peccary piglets born at the zoo past couple of weeks.
Zoogoer2000
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There so cute!Its great that you guys had for as wan't the chacoan peccary thought to be extinct at one point
mstickmanp
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Yup, they were only known from fossil records, but were rediscovered in the 70's.
I love the pic! Thank you for posting it! I haven't seen the babies yet... but I will be at the zoo on Friday probably, so I will then hopefully. Also, thank you for posting that list of outgoing/incoming animal residents. I'm glad to see that some of our Cotton-Top Tamarins are moving to Miami (presumably for their huge new Amazon and Beyond section, which is opening in December.) I will be visiting them of course, because Miami is my second home and I love Miami Metro Zoo!
mstickmanp
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Thanks! Hopefully they don't have the barrier when you. All the pics were taken from far, as there is a barrier to make sure is quiet for the peccary family.
When you go to Miami make sure you take a lot of pics of the animals and exhibits...please! I'm very curious how it will look.
Also the Prehensile-tailed Porcupines might be for the new "Amazon and Beyond".
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mstickmanp
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Yes, when I saw it in the list I was so happy for Chico cause he was finally leaving, but I recently saw an updated list and it doesn't mention him leaving anymore. I hope it does happen mainly for him so he won't leave alone anymore. I also heard we might be getting a new mob (family) of meerkats once Chico leaves.
mstickmanp
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I was at the zoo today and found out a couple of new things that will be happening at the zoo.
One thing that I found out today is that we are going to receive the male Hippopotamus from San Diego Zoo, but we are also sending our male to San Diego, so we are trading hippos.
I also found out that the zoo is testing the new "Golden Monkeys of China" exhibit to see if the exhibit is safe for the monkeys. The funny thing is that the zoo is also testing to see if the animals could escape with a male Red-crowned Mangabey. So if someone goes to the zoo they'll see a Mangabey inside the new exhibit, but this won't last for long since he is moving to another collection really soon.
One thing that I found out today is that we are going to receive the male Hippopotamus from San Diego Zoo, but we are also sending our male to San Diego, so we are trading hippos.
I also found out that the zoo is testing the new "Golden Monkeys of China" exhibit to see if the exhibit is safe for the monkeys. The funny thing is that the zoo is also testing to see if the animals could escape with a male Red-crowned Mangabey. So if someone goes to the zoo they'll see a Mangabey inside the new exhibit, but this won't last for long since he is moving to another collection really soon.
I saw the piglets! There were barely any visitors at the zoo, due to the heat I'm assuming (it got up to 104 degrees F!) and it was very nice and quiet. The piglets were chasing each other, then they flopped down together for a rest. They're so cute! I'll upload the pics I took, but they aren't the best... I zoomed in as far as I could but they were a fair distance from where I was.
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