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I believe the first time they bred them the only reason it didn't survive was some sort of internal problem over parenting issues, so hopefully this new little one grows to maturity!
 
ItsZach said:
They've bred the species three times, only the first didn't survive. The 2nd to be produced was still present on my visit in October - they should now have 4 individuals total.

The pair at the zoo have bred consecutively each year since their arrival in 2021:
-2022 (D.N.S)
-2023
-2024
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I have births recorded as

2022 0.1.1(1) first UK breeding, first baby reared past 30 days in Europe
2023 0.1
2024 1
 
Tetzoo Quizzer said:
Good to know they have previously been successful, somehow missed that news.
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The first birth at the collection cited by Zach was in December 2022, with the infant in question dying in March 2023 - as such, it survived beyond 30 days and counts as a successful first breeding of the species rather than a DNS.

I have a feeling there may have been another earlier in 2022 which was a true DNS, but the relevant inventory is no longer online so I cannot check.
 
ItsZach said:
Apologies for the mislabelling on the 2022 infant, I thought it only lasted a week or two?
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If I'm right about an earlier birth, it's entirely possible we are thinking of two different individuals! :D
 
After searching around, the first ever birth of a coquerel's sifaka at Chester was on the 19th December 2022, with the infant passing in early 2023, followed by the 2023 birth, and now the one in 2024.

I was wrong on thinking there was an infant only lasting a few weeks @TeaLovingDave :)
 
jtrbmvcq said:
That’s really fantastic news. Since the import of four pairs into Europe from USA (Chester and Germany) all of the male, bar Chester’s, have died. Hopefully at least one of Chester’s infants are male and can go and join the remaining females in Germany.
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The youngster (not the baby) is a female.
 
On BBC Breakfast this morning, and also on the BBC News website, news that Chester Zoo has successfully reintroduced 1,329 individuals of two species of Desertas Island land snail to Bugio Island, a smaller island within the Desertas Archipelago that had been restored.

This work restores both species to the wild, as the last individuals had been collected for the captive breeding programme.

More information can be found in the link below:
Why 1,329 tiny snails are being set free on a remote island
 
Baringogiraffe12 said:
Some excellent news - a Coquerel’s sifaka had been born at the zoo, the second to be born successfully following the 2023 birth.
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I visited the zoo yesterday and spent a considerable amount of time at the sifaka indoor enclosure. All three individuals were clearly on display over a long period of time but unfortunately I couldn't see any baby. I realise a baby would be very small but I was unfortunate not to see it.
 
Manatee_Sloth said:
I think that the post about the baby sifaka got taken down off X, and it also had a date of 2023 not 2024, so given nobody has sighted it, is it possible it was an accidental repost of the announcement for last year’s birth?
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Potentially - the post is no longer active on their social media so it makes me think that it is indeed an accidental repost from the zoo.
 
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