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  1. WhistlingKite24

    WhistlingKite24 Well-Known Member 10+ year member Premium Member

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    I messaged the zoo as I was also curious in knowing. The Przewalski's Horse came from Monarto Safari Park and is named Cav.
     
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    The Plains Zebra foals born earlier in the year to females Sharni and Askari has been sexed as 1.1. The male has been named Jafari and the female, Kanzi. A few posts from Facebook:

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    Altina Wildlife Park have received a new species - Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby: Altina Wildlife Park
    Here is an article about the wallaby sanctuary (unfortunately it has a pay wall so it cannot be accessed): Two Griffith family forces join to save endangered wallaby
     
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    More information about the Yellow-footed Rock Wallabies. The zoo received an initial breeding group of 1.3. They have been living at Altina for over a year now and have already produced 1.2 joeys. All three breeding females also currently have pouch young. Therefore Altina is already home to a group of ten rock wallabies!
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    If someone can access it, that would be great.
    (why these pay walls, makes no sense ... you want information out there no?)
     
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    All I can find is this mention, which adds the information that the sanctuary opened Monday:

    We recently collaborated with the Altin family to build a state of the art sanctuary to help protect the Yellow Footed Rock Wallaby (AKA the beloved animal depicted on our [yellow tail] logo) at their Altina Wildlife Park - not too far from our winery in Yenda, NSW. The sanctuary officially opened on Monday with a breeding program that will assist in the long term survival of the endangered wallaby. They have been nursing the species for almost a year and, having already given birth to three babies with three more in the pouch, they are making exciting progress.

    It then links to the stupid paywall...

    https://cl.linkedin.com/company/casella-wines
     
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    Altina Wildlife Park have received 0.4 Tasmanian Devils from Devils@Cradle in Tasmania. The devils arrived this morning: Altina Wildlife Park
     
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    Kito the giraffe has died. He was born at Monarto Safari Park in 2005 and was Altina Wildlife Park's first giraffe to arrived back in 2007. He died of a heart attack on Tuesday morning.
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