Marwell Wildlife okapi birth

[Nisha]

A male Okapi was born to female, Dumela on 14th July.. Sire is Shomari. The first successful birth at Marwell in 6 years youngster is doing well and has been named Dikembe
http://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/11347966.Rare_mammal_born_at_Hampshire_zoo/?ref=var_0

 

[TeaLovingDave]

Fingers crossed the calf survives

 

[Bele]

Brilliant news about the Okapi birth .

The 2013 Hartmann's Mountain Zebra Studbook Report is available on the Marwell website . During a quick browse I found that unfortunately the foal born at Marwell last year died in January 2014 . The non-breeding stallion Bingo was euthanased in August 2013 .

In addition , the 2 stallions born 2012 at Paignton went to Landau .

The herds at Dvur Kralove (3) , Usti (4) and Sigean (3) all bred well in 2013 .

 

[okapis]

The male Okapi youngster is fine I saw him feeding from his mum,10 Flamingo eggs so far this year with one or two hatched lets hope they do better than last year when they lost them all.

 

[SnowCat]

Sadly the Okapi calf has passed away.

 

[okapis]

So sad I saw him only a few days ago walking and feeding looked so well wonder what went wrong.