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Chlidonias said:
An article from about a week ago:
Zoo wraps up exciting spring

It's been an exciting spring for keepers at the Darling Downs Zoo as animal families of all kinds welcomed new babies.

Zoo director Stephanie Robinson said they've been kept busy all season with arrivals.

"Spring is always fun,” Ms Robinson said.

"We've got quite a few different birds breeding, which is always great.

"In the house at the moment, we've got two baby tawny frogmouth (owls) that we're looking after.

"We've got a new baby wombat. She's a live wire, just amazing - she runs everywhere and is absolutely hilarious.”

It might be a fun season for the zoo's workers, but it's also quite stressful.

"We do have conflicting emotions though because you're also really concerned,” she said.

"Is mum going to do the right thing? Are they going to survive?

"The blackouts we were having was a big worry, because many of the animals rely on heat at night.

"We have extremely high excitement and high stress at the same time.”

Staff are further kept busy with other kinds of charges.

"We also get injured animals, we got a rescued magpie the other day,” she said.

The busy birthing season came with precedent-setting news as well - proud zebra parents welcomed two of the first zebra foals to be born in Queensland.

A baby camel and a clutch of baby emus also joined the zoo's family.

Some new arrivals weren't babies, but new additions via adoption.

Ms Robinson said they had taken in a red-tail black cockatoo, an African grey parrot and a "beautiful” green-
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DDZ have just been updated on Google maps, Loving the new large enclosures!
 
Todays news another baby Grants zebra has been born making this the 3rd from the three females plus the two males that were imported by the zoo. (Five others from the ten went to other holders in the country)
 
News from Darling Downs website is the resently brought adjacent property of 120 acres most of which will be developed into the zoos Endangered African precinct. Which will bring the total zoo land size to 172 acres, New species which will be added are Nyala Bongo and Rhinos!!!!
 
Also to add the zoos herd of (now) ten Zebra, camels, Addax and two prides on lions will be moving across to the new area when finished. I believe the Lions will be going up onto the wooded hill in much larger enclosures!
 
Yet another baby Zebra foal born at the zoo to second time mother Zavannah, I believe this is now there 4th baby from the 3 US import mares. Also a filly, they are doing so well with them. It will be a wondeful sight when the herd moves over to the huge African Safari exhibit when its completed!
 
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