Werribee Open Range Zoo WORZ News 2012

Also forgot to mention that all of the lions are together in order to attempt to breed them (when I went early last year Jarrah and Tombo and Tonyi were kept separate).
 
We went to Werribee Zoo yesterday to do the 'Rhino Encounter. It was awesome, by the way, as you get to pat the rhino and feed the rhino, in addition to an off-road tour to see all the other animals up-close.

We saw the baby zebra, as well as an indian antelope giving birth. (Apologies for the low-res pic, but we were really far away and I posted the crop.)
 

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A female camel was born on Saturday. I heard that she was birthed in plain view of the bus station where they load passengers on the tour buses, which caused quite a spectacle - and caused long delays because the baby was born on the road!

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nanoboy said:
A female camel was born on Saturday. I heard that she was birthed in plain view of the bus station where they load passengers on the tour buses, which caused quite a spectacle - and caused long delays because the baby was born on the road!

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The calf has been named "Aloe".
 
photos on the link:
Say Aloe to zoo's new baby | Geelong, VIC, Australia
WERRIBEE Open Range Zoo has welcomed a lively addition to the family with a new baby camel.

Staff said they were delighted by the latest arrival after mum Lucie gave birth in front of visitors last Saturday.

Keepers have since named the calf Aloe, after aloe vera plants, which camels love.

They said it was an early birthday present for the zoo, which celebrates its 29th birthday on Monday. Mum Lucie and her herd mates are taking good care of their new charge, and Aloe is doing well.

Staff said mum and Aloe were on antibiotics for an infection but both were expected to recover quickly.

Eleven baby camels have been born at the zoo since it was opened in 1983 the last calf, Amy, was born in August last year.

Mum and the new calf are on display in the arid exhibit in the zoo's upper savannah.
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Has there been any name released anywhere about the baby zebra born in march this year. havent heard any thing about it and also I was thinking on there website it says that Bill and Sabe (2 male zebras) are both leaders of 2 different groups but there other male Christou is also a leader of a group as well. Can any one tell me how many groups there are thnaks.
 
Animalgeek said:
Has there been any name released anywhere about the baby zebra born in march this year. havent heard any thing about it and also I was thinking on there website it says that Bill and Sabe (2 male zebras) are both leaders of 2 different groups but there other male Christou is also a leader of a group as well. Can any one tell me how many groups there are thnaks.
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Last (and first) time I went to WORZ (2011) there were three groups:

-The main breeding group is housed with waterbuck and lesser kudu (at the time I went) in the samller savannah (before the main savannah) behind the hippos I think. Two females were pregnant at the time of my visit.

-There are two groups in the main savannah mixed with giraffe, ostrich and white rhino (and I think sometimes waterbuck and lesser kudu who rotate?). One group is a single male with about four or five females. Another is an all bachelor group. Both groups keep quite distant from each other.

Bear in mind, this is at the time of my visit (2011) so it might have changed.

Hope this helps :)
 
I heard that the baby zebra's name is Storm - probably because it was born during a storm?

I believe that there are indeed two groups of zebras as described earlier.

A friend of a friend said that a waterbuck was born yesterday or today, and that the sable is out on display now. I wonder whatever happened to the Watusi cattle though?
 
Ok kwl thnaks for that nanoboy. Great news for WORZ they have been having a lot of births latley good for them and for the breeding program.

I sent a email to WORZ and they replied saying that there are 3 groups with eath of the zebras i listed befor being Bill Sabe and Christou leading a group
 
Everybody loves baby animals so babies being born is great news for the zoo. :)

Three groups of zebras? Cool! Did they specify where the groups were?
 
nanoboy said:
Everybody loves baby animals so babies being born is great news for the zoo. :)

Three groups of zebras? Cool! Did they specify where the groups were?
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Like I said, at the time of my visit, the main breeding group (I think lead by Christou) is held in the smaller savannah shared with lesser kudu and waterbuck.

The other two groups are held in the main savannah. One has a single male and around five or six females (lead by Sabe); I presume that these are older or non-breeding animals. The other group is an all bachelor group of around six animals (lead by Bill). Bith of these groups didn't come into contact at all with each other.

I would also presume that once Sabe dies a male from the bachelor group would naturally replace him.

Hope this helps :)
 
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