The latest addition to the park is Fiona, a small tapir female, born on June 29th. Her parents, Rosa and Bernard, arrived in Moselle 17 years ago from the Costwold zoo in the UK, and La Barben in France.
A female hippo, Bulma, was born at the park a few days earlier. Her parents, Kinshasa and Mara, weigh a whopping 2.5 and 2.1 tonnes respectively.
All of these births are good news for the park, especially as most are considered “rare births” or are “part of an international breeding programme for endangered species,” according to the zoo.
Among them are two lemurs, a mandrill, a dwarf antelope, two red kites, a steppe eagle, a snowy owl, four white storks, two bald ibises, two cranes, three little egrets, two red-billed hornbills and two swainsons lorikeets.
To complete this family of newborns, six black kites and a starling were born. These, however, are not part of an “international breeding programme for endangered species” and are not considered rare births.
