milkandcookies
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There's a video of the birth of the zoo's youtube. Jita did such a good job of cleaning and nursing the cubs, especially considering it's her first pregnancy. Good girl Jita!
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Zoo adventures
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Hoping for healthy cubs. So happy Jita is grooming the cubs and taking care of them as a first time mother.
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Zoo adventures
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Update on Jita cubs: Jita is doing a great job of taking care of them. Sometimes she leaves to find food and water then comes back
An update on Jita’s #snowballs
| An update on Jita’s #snowballs Jita continues to be an excellent first-time mother and is still diligently nursing, grooming and cuddling her little... | By The Toronto ZooFacebook
Jefferson
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The Zoo announced on their social media today that 2 year old Maybelle, a female North American River Otter, has arrived from the Calgary Zoo recently and is completing her 30 day quarantine now and then will move to the America's Pavilion. They note that this is an SSP recommendation though if it is specifically a breeding one, although I would love some adorable otter pups.
milkandcookies
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Yay new otter! It'll be nice to see a new face in the America's Pavilion, that area feels kinda empty without the beavers.
Is there a reason we didn't get those two male otters from Calgary last year?
Personally, I feel the America's Pavillion should have this tandem wapiti-bison-grey wolf-black / brown bear- otter-beaver followed by a representative group of native songbirds, amphibians, reptiles and freshwater and migrating fish species.
Zoo adventures
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I do not think they could have 2 packs of wolves nearby. The artic wolves are already living in the tundra pavilion. I do not think the zoo will be housing these two packs so near.
Do they have pure-bred Arctic wolves Canis lupus arctos?
At the zoo today and noticed all of Annie's signage is down in the Australian pavilion. Is she gone?
milkandcookies
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There's a new video of the snow leopard cubs on the zoo's youtube. Jita and the cubs seem to be doing well. THEY'RE SO CUTE!
Osedax
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What species is Annie?
Jefferson
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Annie is a short-billed echidna.
We do have a full reference of all of Toronto's animal names documented here for the last 9 years or so. The latest update as of January 2024 is found on page 6, if you are interested.
Toronto Zoo Animal Names [Toronto Zoo]
As for the question of Annie being gone, I am not sure. I haven't been to the pavilion in a few weeks. She has been around for so long I would if she left or something there would have been an announcement of some sort.
Where were you looking? I haven't been in about a month - but Annie (the echidna) did move from her old spot with the Wombats into the front exhibit (Puzzle the Tree Kangaroo's old exhibit).
milkandcookies
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I was there a couple weeks ago and I think both the echidna and the bettong have been moved from the old tree kangaroo exhibit. The signage for both of them has been taken down now that the cockatoos have been moved in.
I know the bettong was moved in with the kookaburra which I think might be nicer for him since it's smaller and less open, he never seemed very comfortable in the other exhibit. I don't know if the echidna has been moved or taken off exhibit, I didn't see her anywhere but it's possible I just missed her.
The exhibit signage lists them as Canis lupus hudsonicus
Zoo adventures
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The kangaroo have been named Nigel and it is male. We can now see Tori and Nigel in the walkthrough from 11am to 3pm
Meet Nigel | Meet Nigel The newest roo in town is a boy and officially has been named after a longtime Wildlife Care team member in Australasia. Catch a glimpse... | By The Toronto ZooFacebook
The zoo's social media pages have announced the birth of a Mongolian wild horse foal this afternoon to parents Dudley and Winnie.
Jefferson
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Zoo announced today a second Mongolian/Asian Wild/Przewalski's Horse foal today. Again sired by Dudley, mom of this foal is Winona and the foal was born on June 13th.
Information was released via video and I believe both are female, based on the riddle and the pink ball dad Dudley is playing with. Great to have two more females to the herd.
They are both viewable on the Zoomobile.
Information was released via video and I believe both are female, based on the riddle and the pink ball dad Dudley is playing with. Great to have two more females to the herd.
They are both viewable on the Zoomobile.
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