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Jabiru96

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To start off the year a mixture of good and sad news:

-Red Panda cub born

-Mzimba the serval has died right after her 15th birthday.
 
The Red Panda was born in December but only just started coming out of den.

In relation to other news this year (mostly as per separate posts):

*birth of lemur twins;
*zebra foal;
*new tree kangaroo enclosure for a breeding pair (female on display; male to come...hopefully);
*Mary the sunbear (born at the zoo) moved to Taronga in February (does anyone know if she's on display yet?..I haven't been to Taronga yet this year).

(I live in southern NSW so get to this zoo quite a bit)
 
Jet said:
The Red Panda was born in December but only just started coming out of den.

In relation to other news this year (mostly as per separate posts):

*birth of lemur twins;
*zebra foal;
*new tree kangaroo enclosure for a breeding pair (female on display; male to come...hopefully);
*Mary the sunbear (born at the zoo) moved to Taronga in February (does anyone know if she's on display yet?..I haven't been to Taronga yet this year).

(I live in southern NSW so get to this zoo quite a bit)
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I believe the male tree kangaroo is being sourced from Melbourne. Also, Mary isn't on display yet.
 
Mary is not on display yet as was told by a zoo keeper last week. They expect sometime soon but will keep you posted
 
Nisha said:
Expansion plans approved: New species for 2013 will include White Rhino
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Another ungulate - that will make it 4 ungulates at National (5 if you count the llamas).

:p

Hix
 
Zoo welcomes mate for endangered tree kangaroo - Yahoo!7
The National Zoo and Aquarium in Canberra has welcomed its latest resident, a male Goodfellow's tree kangaroo.

Zoo officials are hoping there will be love in the air after nine-year-old Kubu, joined two-year-old Oumak as part the zoo's international breeding program for endangered species.

Oumak arrived from Melbourne Zoo in April, and has been waiting for her prospective partner to arrive.

The critically endangered tree kangaroo is only found in Papua New Guinea and in the very northern parts of Australia.

Wildlife keeper Bec Scott says Kubu has spent a month getting familiar with his new environment.

"He arrived not too long ago from Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary on the Gold Coast," she said.

"He's taken the last couple of weeks to settle in, getting acclimatised of course to our cold weather here and also to his new environment.

"A move for an animal, particularly the tree kangaroo can be a big trip."

The pair are yet to meet formally and are housed in separate enclosures side-by side.

It is hoped love will eventually blossom between Kubu and Oumak in the coming weeks.

"Essentially what we'll do now is wait for both of them to settle in quite well and then we closely monitor the female," Ms Scott said.

"Now she should hopefully come into estrace in the next little while, and both of their behaviours will start to change.

"When she's in estrace, that's when she's the most susceptible and most likely to accept Kubu and that's when we'll start considering putting them in together."

Ms Scott is hopeful the much older Kubu will be able to win over the affections of the young Oumak.

She says only time will tell how long it is before the two are ready to share the same enclosure.

"You can sort of see every now and then they have a bit of a glance at each other. I think at the moment the new environment is more exciting for them," she said.
"But I'd say not too long, these two will start paying more attention to each other and hopefully in the not too distant future, we'll have good news of little babies."
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Is it now just a 'one-way' system around the park or is that a suggested direction?
 
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