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Daphne the Okapi August 2013

Four month old okapi calf - she and mother both exceptionally relaxed as they pottered around their enclosure.
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Four month old okapi calf - she and mother both exceptionally relaxed as they pottered around their enclosure.
 
1. Is this still their original breeding female 'Elilah' that came from Marwell?

2. The father of the calf is Dicky- correct?

3. Which male is currently at London- Dicky or Mbuti?
 
1. Is this still their original breeding female 'Elilah' that came from Marwell?

2. The father of the calf is Dicky- correct?

3. Which male is currently at London- Dicky or Mbuti?

Same Eliah, and Mbuti (ex Bristol, ex Chester) is currently at ZSL. Dicky hasn't been back to London since 2009.

This is Mbuti's first calf
 
Same Eliah, and Mbuti (ex Bristol, ex Chester) is currently at ZSL. Dicky hasn't been back to London since 2009.

This is Mbuti's first calf

Thanks Nisha.

Good news that Mbuti has fathered a calf now. By my reckoning this calf is something like the eighth generation unbroken, bred from the original Bristol import in the 1960's- though one or two of the generations were born to animals outside of the UK.
 
That paddock is starting to look very attractive. One of my favourite corners of the Zoo.

They landscaped this paddock very effectively. They also landscaped the Hunting dog enclosure well also.

I'd like to see this treatment applied similarly to the Lion enclosure- Acacia trees, sand, a few boulders-very simple but would make it look more like Indian dry thorn forest. (and fill in the water moat as they did here-to give more space)
 

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