Pleased announcement at a Louisiana zoo, where a female Sumatran orangutan is pregnant with twins
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himPleased announcement at a Louisiana zoo where a female Sumatran orangutan is expecting twins - new hope for an endangered species
Lo the Audubon Zoo, in New Orleans, is happy to announce that Menari, a female Sumatran orangutan, is in sweet expectation of twins, fruit of his mating don Jambi, the male of the zoo. This is the first pregnancy of Menari, who is expected to give birth to the young by the end of the year.
We are very excited by the news - he said Bob MacLean, zoo veterinarian. - Twin pregnancy is an extremely rare event in this species, there was only a 1% chance that it could occur.
The last time Audubon Zoo welcomed a pair of twin orangutans was in 1985, when mom Sarah gave birth to Bon Temps (aka Bonnie) and Lagniappe (aka Lana) - both raised in captivity: Bonnie died in 2019 in Miami Zoo, while Lana currently lives at the Greenville Zoo (South Carolina).
Although it is his first children, Menari has already had the opportunity to dealing with the experience of motherhood, thanks to her sisters who have given birth in recent months in the zoo. In addition, the veterinary staff of the facility is preparing the female orangutan for her new life as a mother through real training, showing how she should behave after the birth of her children.
Jambi's arrival in 2018 (after leaving the zoo in Hanover, Germany) helped the zoo add genetic diversity to the Sumatran orangutan species, which is classified as "critically endangered"From WWF: in 2019 he became Bulan's father and Madu in 2021, with two different companions. Currently, just 14.000 specimens of this animal remain in the wild, threatened by human activities that destroy their habitat - firstly, by destroying the forest they live in to make way for oil palm crops.
Follow your Telegram | Instagram | Facebook | TikTok | Youtube
Fonti: Audubon Nature Institute / WWF
We also recommend:
- International Orangutan Day: What we can do to save this endangered species
- The rarest monkey on Earth is on the brink of extinction, with fewer than 800 Tapanuli orangutans left
- Rare Sumatran tiger falls into a trap, left to die after slow agony and with a battered paw
