Feminine foal born on August 21 at Zoo’s Camel Zebra Space
CHICAGO (August 22, 2023) – Lincoln Park Zoo is worked up to welcome a brand new black and white addition this summer time. After confirming the being pregnant by means of hormone research previous this yr, on August 21, 16-year-old Grevy’s zebra Adia gave start to a wholesome, sturdy feminine foal. Each Adia and the baby had been doing neatly and proceed to be carefully monitored by means of professional Animal Care and veterinary personnel.
The foal is Adia’s 5th offspring and 3rd with sire Wester. She joins 3 different zebras (together with ma and pa) on the zoo and may also be discovered at Camel & Zebra Space. The yet-to-be-named foal is simple to identify, with reddish-brown stripes that can handiest flip black as soon as she is older. She was once born weighing simply over 105 kilos and can turn out to be round 850 kilos when she’s an grownup.
Whilst the foal was once ready to run simply an hour after start, she’s going to stay depending on her mom for the primary seven months. After a kind of 390-day gestation and start, zebras nurse for roughly 275 days.
“It’s wonderful to peer the inhabitants of those endangered zebras keep growing,” stated Curator Dan Boehm. “Mother and foal are hitting all in their postpartum milestones and the baby is reasonably spirited and really energetic.”
This start is especially notable, as Grevy’s zebras are endangered, with fewer than 2,000 of the species within the wild because of habitat loss and looking. The foal was once born as a part of the Grevy’s Zebra Species Survival Plan (SSP), a collaborative inhabitants control effort some of the Affiliation of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) establishments.
The ones taken with serving to deal with mother and foal throughout the year would possibly ADOPT a zebra at lpzoo.org/undertake or store the Want Listing at lpzoo.org/wish-list.