The New Zealand Newspaper Archives offers an interesting range of online articles about the early inhabitants of the Auckland Zoo.
This article from the Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 57, 5 September 1938, Page 6 is about the zoo's litter of lion cubs (born 1938):
Papers Past — Evening Post — 5 September 1938 — LITTER OF LIONS
It's amazing how little is known about the species back. They say a litter of four is extremely unusual (only at Paradise Valley) and that twins are almost always male-female.
It would seem likely that better diets and both ante-natal and post-natal care of the lioness and her offspring contibute to the higher birth rate that is seen is many zoos including Auckland.
This article from the Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 57, 5 September 1938, Page 6 is about the zoo's litter of lion cubs (born 1938):
Papers Past — Evening Post — 5 September 1938 — LITTER OF LIONS
It's amazing how little is known about the species back. They say a litter of four is extremely unusual (only at Paradise Valley) and that twins are almost always male-female.
It would seem likely that better diets and both ante-natal and post-natal care of the lioness and her offspring contibute to the higher birth rate that is seen is many zoos including Auckland.