14 DAY TRIAL // Earlier this month, staff at Chester Zoo in England welcomed a baby zebra belonging to a species currently in danger of going extinct in the wild.
Thus, keepers say that the foal is a Grevy's zebra. According to several estimates, just 2,500 such herbivores are currently left in Kenya and Ethiopia.
Zoo Borns tells us that the baby zebra was born to mom Nadine and dad Mac, neither of which has been parents before, on February 22.
Vets have determined that the foal is a female, and keepers are now busy trying to find a suitable name for it, the same source details.
Chester Zoo employees say that Nadine is doing a great job looking after the little bundle of joy, and somehow manages to keep it from throwing one too many tantrums.
“She is a lively one but mum Nadine is doing a great job so far, particularly given that it’s her first – she’s certainly earning her parental stripes,” curator Tim Rowlands told the press.
By the looks of it, this baby Grevy's zebra is the first of its kind to be born at Chester Zoo in about 34 years. Needless to say, this means that she is getting loads of love and attention.
“Since our female zebras arrived a few years ago, we have worked very hard to breed this highly endangered species.”
“The arrival of this foal is not only a really good achievement for us but good news for the species as a whole,” Tim Rowlands commented on its birth.