Summary: A giraffe has given birth in Mysore Zoo early Sunday morning. Lakshmi, the mother, is taking good care of the newborn much to the relief of the zoo's workers. Both the baby giraffe and the mother are doing well and appear to be healthy. What's interesting is that the Mysore facility has now got eight giraffes after the entire population was wiped out during 1980's due to epidemic diseases. It efforts to bred them has proved a success after the arrival of Honey and Henry from Germany Zoo in 1988.
Analysis: I'm glad that their efforts to boost the giraffe population have been successful, even if its in the zoo and not the wild. Much of the article is about the Mysore Zoo trying to get more diverse and exotic animals, so I couldn't write much. Still, it's also good that the baby giraffe and its mother are healthy and that there were no complications in the birth. Hopefully we will see an increased giraffe population in India.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/wild-wacky/Giraffe-gives-birth-in-Mysore-Zoo/articleshow/30574023.cms
This is awesome!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a special zoo that takes in endangered animals. That's pretty cool that they actually care about the animals.
ReplyDeleteI agree - this is a great step forward to help vulnerable species on our planet, and I'm glad the world is starting to wake up and help.
ReplyDeleteYay, let the populations rise! maybe if the zoo produces more, theyll let some into the wild again so they can populate naturally.
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