Mr Wrinkly

West Caucasian Tur

0.3.0 Tur were born over last weekend. This is Lucky and her twins; third year in a row she has had twins.
The other mother is Alani.
 
I really wish we would stop breeding them. It's a huge exhibit we could re-purpose for takin or markhor who actually would be of value to their respective SSPs.
 
There are other spaces but they would need a lot of fence reinforcement. There has been talk of Takin but it is on the shelf for the moment.

Another reason for keeping Tur - they really engage children because they can get very close to them, and there is always something going on in there. That includes head-butting, climbing the "mountain", babies, getting right into the hay wagons, and all 20 or so suddenly running over to one side.
 

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