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5 coatis born at Taipei Zoo :
Five Playful Coatis for Taipei Zoo
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Five lively South American Coati babies are keeping their mother busy at the Taipei Zoo. Born on March 23, the babies progressed in their development quickly, opening their eyes at five days and standing at 12 days.

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Photo Credit: Taipei Zoo

The babies now follow their mother everywhere in the exhibit, stopping to explore and investigate along the way. They’ve recently learned to jump, and will use their mother’s back as a springboard to reach tree trunks.

Coatis are expert climbers and diggers. They rummage for food in the leaf litter of the tropical forests of South America. Fruits, insects, and lizards are preferred food items, but as omnivores, Coatis will eat a wide variety of foods.

Not enough is known about the wild population of Coatis to understand their conservation status. Like many mammals, they face pressures from unregulated hunting and habitat loss.
Source : Zooborns
 
At leasrt a Giant Panda born at Taipei Zoo ! Female Yuan Yuan gave birth to a baby on Saterday July 6. Father is the zoo's male Tuan Tuan. Sex of the baby still unknown.
 
Some more information and footage:

BBC News - Footage of giant panda birth in Taipei

A giant panda, one of a pair presented by China four years ago to mark a warming of ties with Taiwan, has given birth to a female cub at a Taipei zoo.

Nine-year-old Yuan Yuan delivered the cub on Saturday night, following artificial insemination in March.

It was said to be the seventh such attempt on Yuan Yuan in three years.

The zoo's secretary Chang Chih-hua said everyone who saw the birth process was very excited but felt a sense of responsibility.

Natural pregnancy among pandas is relatively rare.
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vogelcommando said:
At leasrt a Giant Panda born at Taipei Zoo ! Female Yuan Yuan gave birth to a baby on Saterday July 6. Father is the zoo's male Tuan Tuan. Sex of the baby still unknown.
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The cub (a female named Yuan Zai) has gone on display at the zoo, debuting to massive crowds - she will be seen by up to 19,000 visitors daily.

Story and photo here: Aged Six Months, Taiwan Panda Unveiled To Public | Stuff.co.nz

A 6-month-old giant panda was unveiled to her adoring public in Taiwan on Monday (Tuesday NZT), with long lines of children of all ages queuing up at the Taipei zoo to see the cub cavorting around her cage with an understandably protective mother.

Yuan Zai's debut had long been anticipated on this island of 23 million people.

With delighted visitors passing in front of her cage at the rate of 40 per minute, Yuan Zai showed off her climbing skills before retreating to mother Yuan Yuan's embrace, and then heading off for a nap. She currently sleeps 20 hours a day.

Zoo officials say they will be able to accommodate 19,000 visitors a day to see Yuan Zai, whose mother and father came to Taiwan from China in late 2008. Their arrival was seen at the time as a high water mark in Beijing's use of "soft power" in Taiwan, which split from the mainland amid civil war in 1949, and remains the object of unwavering Chinese attempts to bring it back into the fold - by persuasion if possible, by force if necessary.

But politics seemed to be about the last thing on the minds of Yuan Zai's fan base Monday as again and again visitors' faces lit up with broad smiles amid giggles of glee and repeated cries of "how cute" or "how beautiful."

Chinese giant pandas have been a hit all around the world, but they seem to have a special cachet in Taiwan, where animal figures are so much in vogue that Taiwanese airline company Eva Airways has found that festooning its aircraft in the livery of fictional Japanese figure Hello Kitty provides a powerful boost to sales.
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Another pangolin has been born at Taipei Zoo (presumably the only place breeding them worldwide?) - this one is being hand fed.

Story, with photos and video (check it out) here: Tiny Newborn Pangolin Gets Fed, Bathed and Cuddled at the Taipei Zoo in Taiwan

A tiny newborn pangolin named Gung-wu gets fed, bathed and cuddled at the Taipei Zoo (previously) in Wenshan, Taipei, Taiwan . Gung-wu had refused to nurse from her mother, so zoo caretakers had to step in and feed her with a bottle to make sure that the fragile infant was getting enough nutrients to thrive.

(translated) Gung-wu ‘weight has grown from 113 grams to 313 grams. Before deciding to artificial feeding, nursery had been not to give up hope, try to teach “Gung-wu” suck mother’s milk, but found ” Gung-wu, “not with the nipple, had to be aligned with the mother’s nipple” Gung-wu ‘mouths, “Gung-wu,” only two or three ports on the suction let go, weighing from 133 grams at birth fell to 113 grams, and finally had to start the mechanism of artificial feeding. May be due to ” Gung-wu “hungry for generation of high milk intake wishes, sucking action is very positive, but the” Gung-wu “inadequate suction, so the nurse put the syringe to push forward slowly, although only milk but 3cc drink a full 10 minutes
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Previous thread on pangolin births at the zoo here: http://www.zoochat.com/246/pangolin-birth-197763/
 
@Zooboy, didn't Singapores Night Safari also had a pangolin birth?

But great news breeding has started, so there is some hope that one day it is possible to start a breeding program :)
 
Singapore Night Safari has indeed bred pangolins successfully.
 
Chlidonias said:
Singapore Night Safari has indeed bred pangolins successfully.
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Wht do you mean with successfully ? How many were born and bred there, how many raised, and in which generation they bred there ? I bet, if they had birts, they came from pregant wild imported animals, so how the two first births at Taipei, and altough the zoo has the most experience in keeping them, no of the young survived...So zoos are far, far away in succesfully breeding of pangolins-and how many pangolins has died, before the first in cptivity bred animla were born, but not raised ? Tons of them.Sucessfully ?
 
Bib Fortuna said:
Wht do you mean with successfully ? How many were born and bred there, how many raised, and in which generation they bred there ? I bet, if they had birts, they came from pregant wild imported animals, so how the two first births at Taipei, and altough the zoo has the most experience in keeping them, no of the young survived...So zoos are far, far away in succesfully breeding of pangolins-and how many pangolins has died, before the first in cptivity bred animla were born, but not raised ? Tons of them.Sucessfully ?
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there have been three pangolins born and raised at the Night Safari since 2011 (the third was earlier this year, so I suppose could be open to interpretation if has been successfully raised). All were conceived at the park, and reared naturally by the mother. The female's first baby (in 2009) was not raised successfully.

Therefore, "Singapore Night Safari has indeed bred pangolins sucessfully."
 
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