Right here’s a Friday heat fuzzy from Adelaide Zoo!
Take a peek on the zoo’s latest resident, just a little one-week-old giraffe calf, tucking into his milk bottle from keepers.
The calf was born at Monarto Safari Park to 17-year-old Thula final Thursday, and whereas preliminary indicators of bonding had been promising, sadly Thula had not fed the calf throughout the first 24 hours.
With sizzling climate approaching, groups throughout each websites made the choice to maneuver the calf to Adelaide Zoo to provide him the perfect welfare end result.
Senior Keeper of Ungulates, Arliah Hayward, mentioned since he arrived, the leggy lad has gone from energy to energy.
“The little man is doing very well, he has impressed all of us,” she mentioned.
“He took actually rapidly to his first keeper Matt and we’re blown away by how easily this little man has bonded with us.
“In the meanwhile he’s having 5 feeds a day and he’s taken all of them very well.
“The 2 women, Nolean and Kimya, verify on him quite a bit and so they’ve had just a little little bit of mesh-to-mesh contact, so we’re excited to see him get out and about with the ladies quickly.
“We’re so grateful to everybody for his or her ongoing assist – as a not-for-profit your assist permits us to take care of species like this toddler and proceed our important conservation work.”
The calf won’t be seen to the general public till keepers are comfy that he’s robust sufficient to hitch 18-year-old Kimya and his sister, three-year-old Nolean within the giraffe yard. Zoos SA will announce naming particulars within the coming weeks.
Whereas many individuals consider the giraffe are plentiful within the wild, the species is unfortunately weak to extinction.
Every time you go to Adelaide Zoo or Monarto Safari Park you’re serving to assist the conservation of this stunning species each right here and within the wild with companions just like the Giraffe Conservation Basis.
To search out out extra please go to, adelaidezoo.com.au.