Taronga Zoo Taronga Zoo News 2018

[tetrapod]

Difficult to find any numbers, but this paper from 2012 says that "the number of frogs in the rediscovered population is estimated to be 100".

Myxozoan Parasite in Brain of Critically Endangered Frog

Cheers for that. Had a quick look at various links but others did not indicate a number.

 

[Jambo]

Exciting news! Two baby echidna’s have been born for the second time in over 30 years:

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/taronga-zoo-birth-new-baby-echidnas-puggles-20181127-p50im3.html

 

[Zorro]

Shame they're never likely to have Okapis to complete their Congo development

Lets hope its possible some day but at the rate which the IRA for Bovidae is talking another for Okapi may take for ever and one day but who knows what could happen if Taronga want them!

 

[Kifaru Bwana]

Exciting news! Two baby echidna’s have been born for the second time in over 30 years:

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/taronga-zoo-birth-new-baby-echidnas-puggles-20181127-p50im3.html

The news items seems to imply there is more than echidna female involved.???
(One individual - female Pipta, was herself captive-bred at Taronga Zoo in 1987)