LIFESTYLE NEWS - Summer is in full swing at the National Zoological Gardens (NZG) of South Africa and with it comes the births of plains zebra foal, twin urial sheep lambs and a ring-tailed lemur youngster.
The babies and their mothers are all in fine health.
The female plains zebra foal is about a week old and is in the enclosure with its mother, father and two other females.
Plains zebras are regarded as the most common and geographically widespread of all the zebra species.
Its range stretches from southern Ethiopia, through East Africa to as far south as Angola and eastern South Africa.
At present its conservation status by the IUCN is listed as one of Least Concern; however, it is being threatened by hunting for its meat and hide.
It also competes with livestock for grazing area due to encroachment by farming on much of its natural habitat.
Twin urial lambs were born two weeks ago. Urials are a subspecies of the wild sheep and are found in central Asia. What makes these sheep remarkable is that the males’ horns can reach a massive 1-metre in length.
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