Adelaide Zoo Capybara babies!

[Tiger Taylor]

Over the weekend Adelaide Zoo welcomed some new additions to the expanding zoo family. Five capybara babies were born on Saturday 19 April right in front of excited zoo visitors! It turned out to be quite the spectacle as a large crowd was treated to a rare sight, witnessing first-hand the miracle of life.

I think this is some great news, Adelaide zoo is doing well with old "phase out species" - they now have both young capybara and mara.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.832873926740714.1073741836.160021607359286&type=1

 

[boof]

hopefully another zoo might import some more.

 

[Chlidonias]

hopefully another zoo might import some more.

you would hope so! But you would also suspect nobody will bother.....

 

[Brum]

I saw the title of the thread and thought "Woo, more capybaras!" but then realised which part of the world it was and realised it was slightly more significant than I first thought!

 

[Ara]

I know I've said this before, but I really enjoy Adelaide zoo because it perseveres with species regarded as "phase-outs." Likewise the smaller zoos at which I can still see some of those animals.

While I can understand the cold-blooded reasoning behind Aussie zoos having fewer species, as an average visitor I don't want to see less and less animals each time I visit. Maybe I'm being unrealistic. If so, then as far as I'm concerned, the "Golden Age" of Australian zoos has gone.....

 

[Hix]

the "Golden Age" of Australian zoos has gone.....

Yeah, it has.



Hix

 

[Chlidonias]

there is a photo just posted on Adelaide Zoo's Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/AdelaideZo...0021607359286/906874282674011/?type=1&theater) of a row of presumably the babies referred to in this thread (born in April) -- but there are six of them not five.