Three females gave birth to cubs within a few days of each other, but all three mothers refused to feed the babies.
As the zoo’s press service reported, sometimes animals refuse to breastfeed their offspring – this happens both in the wild and in captivity. In the natural environment, in this case, the babies would be at risk of death from exhaustion, but at the zoo people came to the aid of the “refuseniks”, and all the babies were saved and fed by hand.
After the newborn babies were removed from the enclosure where the rest of the adults were, they were placed in a special playpen. At first, Limpopo specialists hand-fed the Mara babies every two hours. Then the number of feedings decreased to three times a day.
Now the health of the children is not in danger. They are already fully grown and are even trying adult food. Soon the grown-up maras will be returned to the enclosure with the rest of the family members. As for the gender of the babies, they are two males and a female.
Photo courtesy of the press service of the Limpopo Zoo.
04/25/2024 — 15:42
Region: N. Novgorod
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