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A male rhesus macaque is being hand-reared:

HE MAY be a monkey but Ronnie is clinging to a mother kangaroo stuffed toy.

The 14-day-old rhesus macaque was left to die on the floor of his Darling Downs Zoo enclosure after his sister forced him away from his mother.

Zoo owners Steve and Stephanie Robinson took Ronnie home, where he has slept cradling a stuffed toy for two weeks.

“For the first week all he wanted to do was sit and cuddle his teddy, but now he likes to climb inside Stephanie’s shirt,” Mr Robinson said.

Caring for Ronnie meant waking up every two hours and going through “a whole heap of wipes”.

The bear got so grubby the Robinsons had to get a second to alternate with the washing.

“It also involves spending time with his family so he knows he is a monkey and not a human,” he said.

Ronnie will not be on public display until he is successfully reintegrated into his family, which could take up to two years.

A five-time monkey father, Mr Robinson remained confident.

“We’ve never failed yet,” he said.
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DDZ has had their first bilby babies (from Facebook):
The Darling Downs Zoo received it’s first Bilbies earlier this year – thanks to the Dreamworld Bilby breeding program and the Queensland EHP.

Our first Bilbies have now rewarded us with their first babies – we have two beautiful little females!
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a very large new aviary is being constructed for waterbirds:

photos: https://www.facebook.com/Darling.Do...922814442609/1155922754442615/?type=3&theater

The Darling Downs Zoo is currently in the middle of it’s biggest ever expansion and improvement phase. One of our projects is the demolition of an existing aviary and the construction of a massive new one – four times the size of the original.

We have managed to retain a lot of the original vegetation and will be planting a lot more. The pond system will be renewed and expanded to include a solar operated reticulation system which will pump water up to a top pond and then gravity feed it down to a shallow pond for our Stilts.

When completed, this huge aviary will house not only the Stilts but also our Nankeen Night-herons, Glossy Ibis, Chestnut Rail, Cattle Egrets, native Pigeons, Royal Spoonbills and Broad-shelled River Turtles.
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DDZ has had its first ever breeding of common wombat:
Our zoo is very pleased to announce the birth of our first Common Wombat!
Our baby has been developing in Mum’s pouch since last year and is now getting to the stage where bits and pieces are starting to hang out.
If you look carefully at the photos you can see a tiny leg as well as a nose behind it. It will be a few weeks yet before the baby is out of the pouch and running around.
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...and in the best Australian news so far this year, Darling Downs announce on their Facebook page that their four new agoutis are almost ready to leave quarantine. They are four animals imported from the USA, all unrelated to one another and also (obviously) to all the inbred current stock in Australasia. There are some photos on their page: https://www.facebook.com/Darling.Do...432432891647/1171432399558317/?type=3&theater
 
that is brilliant news!

Also same for the emperor tamarin babies, wombat baby, bilby babies, etc etc, of course...
 
IT'S NOW TIME TO SHARE OUR EXCITING NEWS!!!!!!

On Boxing Day these two beautiful giraffe will be making their public debut at the zoo.

Both females are just 2 years old and destined to be part of a breeding program here at the Darling Downs Zoo and a young male will join them later next year.

Giraffe were once very numerous in Africa but they are now listed as Vulnerable as fewer than 100,000 are left on the entire African continent.

We are extremely proud to now be part of a scientifically based Australasian program to help preserve this iconic species.

Please remember the Darling Downs Zoo will be open EVERY day over the QLD school holidays EXCEPT Christmas Day. We hope you will enjoy visiting our two new giraffe and all of our other animals over the Christmas break
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That's very exciting news! Any confirmation on where these two (or the yet-to-arrive male) have come from?
 
Just because a couple of females were born there back around 2014, and it is the closest facility with giraffe to Darling Downs Zoo, my hunch is they came from Australia Zoo (although I could be wrong).
 
The young male COULD be Mdomo (born 2015 at Auckland Zoo).

He's related to the females born at Australia Zoo:

Zabulu x Kiraka - Mdomo

Zabulu x Rukiya - Forrest - 5 x female calves at Australia Zoo

But inbreeding is hardly unheard of in Australasia!
 
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