NM zoo gets North America's only Tasmanian wombats - KWES NewsWest 9 / Midland, Odessa, Big Spring, TX: newswest9.com |
Dear me... journalists these days Nice species, but what would an American Zoo do with 3 Tasmanian Wombats?
Well they're not the Tasmanian devils they were planning on but still a very interesting addition to the collection. Tasmanian Wombats along with the only Victorian Koalas in the US makes this an Australian animal collection worth visiting. The journalists made an error clearly, they should have said, "there are a half dozen other wombats belonging to a different species, in zoos across the country."
Yes there are 4.2 Southern Hairy-nosed Wombats distributed amongst the Brookfield, Memphis, San Diego, and Toronto Zoos.
I didn't realise when I posted the thread that it was a whole new species for North American zoos. That's excellent. Here's a longer article: Tasmanian Wombats Are Cute New U.S. Zoo Residents : NPR I like the comment from Albuquerque's hip mayor: "This is way cool"
