Australia’s Perth Zoo has unveiled a spiky new addition: a Short-Beaked
Echidna puggle.
Hatched in September last year, this is the second offspring for parents Chindi and Nyingarn, who were the world’s first zoo-born
Echidnas to succ...
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A tiny, short-beaked echidna puggle found alone and abandoned on a property in Weja, New South Wales, Australia, is being hand-raised at Sydney’s Taronga Wildlife Hospital.
Taronga Veterinary Nurse Liz McConnell has become the puggle’...
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Who can resist a little puggle snuggle on a Friday (or on a Thursday if you’re in the Western Hemisphere!)? Adelaide Zoo would like to introduce you to its newest arrival, Kathari (cut-tree), which means ‘prickle’ in Ngarrindjeri langu...
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Australia's Taronga
Zoo welcomed three Fennec Fox infants, the first to be born to a new
breeding pair from Europe. The
kits, which are just starting to emerge from their nest box, were born on December 19, 2012, a year after the ...
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