MONTHS 2002
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NEWS NOVEMBER Steve Irwin, owner of the Australia Zoo and Famous Tv showman is now appearuing in an add on the importance of quarantine laws in Australia. He will star in a $3.5 million advertising campaign. Harriet a giant Galapgos Tortoise celebrated her birthday in November. The tortoise which resides at the Australian Zopo is thought to be 172 years old and wascollected by Charles Darwin when he visited the islands. Perth Zoo has announced the birth od another White Cheeked Gibbon. The zoo currently has two breeding pairs and the second youngster, a female named Jermei was born in July. Unfortunately her mother was not producing enough milk so the youngster had to be hand raised. She will be introduced back to her parents so that she develops correct gibbon social skills. Western Plains Zoo has a breeding groupo of Southern black rhino and until recently a male eastern. Mwaniki has now been sent to Port Lympne in Great Britain to join their breeding group. He was not needed in Australia as the zoos do not interbreed the two subspecies. A survey conducted by RSPCA in the Uk has discovered that care of elephants is neglected in the country and that elephants often die before they turn 40. Zoos in the country have denied that they neglect their animals. Australis has a better reputation with three zoo elephants in their sixties. Persian Leopard Fury has moved home from Perth Zoo to Crocoylus Park in the Northern Territory. Here he will join his two daughters who arrived last year. MELBOURNE ZOO NEWS Three collard peccaries have arrived at the zoo from Western Plains. They will join the pair that already is on exhibit. At least one Quokka has a pouch young. Melbourne Zoo has opened a new exhibit for their Goodfellows Tree Kangaroo. The zoo has three animals, two male and a female. At Healesville Sanctuart they have had a good breeding season for Helmeted Honeyeaters, Black Eared Minors and Brush Tailed Phascogales, all endangered species. Healesville has also received three Victorian Brush-tailed Rock Wallabies, these will replace the animals originally from Kawai Island. The reason behind this is to help recover the Victorian population of this species. Three Black Eared Minors have been sent to Adelaide and Monarto Zoos to help increase the captive population of this species. Two male zebras have been born at Werribee, along with female bison calf that has since been named Shoshone The Open Plains Zoo has also received two male Przewalski Horses and have been introduced to their herd of four females and one male. The two stallions came from Western Plains. A male Addax arrived from Monarto to bring new blood into the Zoos succesful breeding program. In an effort to breed cheetah, Werribee has co-operated with Monarto Zoo. Two males from Melbourne, Ovambo and Nakuru have been sent to Werribee to be on display instead of the three Werribee males, Twande, Haraka and Sasa. These three are now at the Werribee breeding facility where a female from Monarto, Lulu is staying. It is hoped that she will become enamoured of one of the three brothers and breed. Auckland Zoo has been expecting the birth of two giraffes for the last year. Now the wait is over. Expectant mum, Kiri successfully gave birth to a healthy male youngster on November 27th. This is the first giraffe to be born at the zoo in eight years. He was born on exhibit in front of anthralled visitors.The second female Kay is due to give birth soon and this will mean the zoo has a population of six giraffes. The father to both calves is Zabulu

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