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The first birth of the new year - a male zebra foal.

Photo on link: Baby zebra born at Hamilton zoo | Stuff.co.nz

Hamilton Zoo has welcomed a little bundle of black and white stripes to its animal family with the birth of a baby zebra.

The male foal was born early Monday morning.

Yet-to-be named, he is the first zebra to be born at the zoo since 2011.

Both mother and foal are doing well and zoo keeper Louise van der Sande said she was very excited about the new addition to the zoo team.

"The foal is doing really great,'' she said.

''He's healthy and is walking and drinking from his mother.

''Like horses, zebras are highly sociable animals so our new zebra is already enjoying exploring his new home and meeting the other animals."

The foal is the fourth for mother Marble, who was born in Hamilton Zoo in 2003 and the 11th for father Bwana, who was born in 2004 at Adelaide Zoo and imported to Hamilton in 2005.

The birth takes the number of zebra at Hamilton Zoo to a total of seven, including three males and four females.

There are about 20 zebras held in New Zealand.
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I think there are slightly over 20 zebras held in NZ, I think 20 in ZAA zoos, plus one or two held privately. Certainly not as many as you would expect. Hamilton's is the biggest herd.
 
Oh wow that's great news always good to have another calf born Also what I find strange is that when Hamilton zoos last zebra was born Layla a news artical stated that another female called Miribai was pregnant and due to give birth soon what ever happened to her calf?

And to my knowledge there are 20 zebras in New Zealand including non ZAAA places

Auckland - 2.2
Hamilton - 3.4
Orana - 2.5 - (I think)
Key stone - 2.0

Is that them all
 
Animalgeek said:
Oh wow that's great news always good to have another calf born Also what I find strange is that when Hamilton zoos last zebra was born Layla a news artical stated that another female called Miribai was pregnant and due to give birth soon what ever happened to her calf?

And to my knowledge there are 20 zebras in New Zealand including non ZAAA places

Auckland - 2.2
Hamilton - 3.4
Orana - 2.5 - (I think)
Key stone - 2.0

Is that them all
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Presumably Miribai's foal did not survive then, that is often not reported.

The zebra you have listed appear to be all the ZAA zebra in the country (all those places are ZAA members), and those are the numbers I was using. There are an additional two males at a place in Taupo, it is discussed in this thread: http://www.zoochat.com/17/privately-held-exotic-species-209116/

So that makes a total of 22 in the country.
 
Oh ok sweet i didnt know that Key stone was a ZAA member intresting where did the 2 males in taupo come from ?
 
Oh ok thanks for that zooboy do you no of any pichtures of these males and there age oor is not mutch knowin about them
 
ok cheers thanks heaps by any chance do you no of a studbook I could get my hands on to have a look at thanks
 
To redirect the thread back to its name does any one know if the meerkats have started mating yet last I heard none of the boys were inntrested in her. I wouldnt be surprised if there were pups born this year.
 
Are all the NZ zebras related, and presumably of Grant's/East African type/subspecies?
 
Hamiltons heard are all related excsept for there breeding male
Aucklands new heard are unrelated to eatch other
i of Keystones maes is related tot he hamilton heard and a male from the Auckland heard but the other one is related to Maria at Oranna but I dont no any one eles at Orana or about the 2 in Taupo
 
tetrapod said:
Are all the NZ zebras related, and presumably of Grant's/East African type/subspecies?
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they are a mix of Grant's and Chapman's. Orana's were all pure Chapman's, originally imported from Marwell (I think it was), but they have added Grant's to their stock fairly recently and hybridised them.
 
I no that the oranna heard consists of

Mavara (m) breeding male 22
Moestro (f) none breeding female 10 born at hamilton in 2002
Lauren (f) none breeding female 21 born at oranna
Kitui (f) breeding female from Weeribee
Asali (f) breeding female from hamilton
Maria (f) none breeding female born at auckland in 1986 27 this year wow !!!
and Zelda (f) none breeding female 15

Hamilton says that they house grant zebras
Moestro and Asali are from Hamilton so there Grants

Auckland use to have Grant zebras so Maria is a grants

Weeribee houses chapmans so Kitui is a chapman

I dont no what the other 3 are thoe hope this helps
 
zooboy28 said:
I'm not sure where they came from, both are neutered so they were presumably unwanted males from somewhere.
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the two at Taupo are ex-Hamilton Zoo (which ties them in nicely to this current thread :D)
 
Myself and the girls visited on Monday and I was really impressed with a lot of the enclosures, mostly the size of them. The chimp area is huge, which is great - we spent some time watching an older female next to the glass at the bottom end who was chilling out - we were particularly delighted to see her straightening out and arranging her blanket for a nap. I was also very impressed with the enclosure where squirrel monkeys were practically invisible in very tall trees in a paddock. And the week old baby zebra did some great frollicking about.

Question - are any of their giraffes female? They all seemed a bit boyish around the underside. A group of three who looked to be teenager-sized where wandering around in circles playing who's the boss and necking a bit, but with no girls to play for?
 
Bailey13 said:
I was also very impressed with the enclosure where squirrel monkeys were practically invisible in very tall trees in a paddock.

Question - are any of their giraffes female? They all seemed a bit boyish around the underside. A group of three who looked to be teenager-sized where wandering around in circles playing who's the boss and necking a bit, but with no girls to play for?
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do you mean spider monkeys? (Or maybe capuchins?)

I think all their giraffes are males.
 
Chlidonias said:
do you mean spider monkeys? (Or maybe capuchins?)

I think all their giraffes are males.
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Would be the Spider Monkey exhibit, which is large and open, with gum trees around the back. The Tapirs (and their Cape Barren Goose mate) used to periodically share it too, but I'm not sure if this is still happening.

Hamilton holds a bachelor herd of six males.
 
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