A litter of meerkats has been born to the group imported from South Africa last year. Wildlife park welcomes new meerkats - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
I am surprised that there has not been any comment on this announcement. Here we have a privately owned, independent zoo that has imported a significant number of Meerkats from their range state and has now successfully bred from them. Is that not worthy of some discussion and praise for their initiative?
I think it's because they are meerkats I think it is of noteworthy-ness that a Tasmanian zoo imported animals from outside the country rather than just getting cast-offs from the mainland. Well done on that!! (It was ZooDoo that imported the white lions too wasn't it?)
yep I was meaning more the importing-into-Tasmania bit (and I couldn't remember if it was ZooDoo or Tasmania Zoo that they came in to). It just always seems like Tasmania has to fight so much to get anything exotic for their zoos so it is good that they are importing at least some animals themselves directly from overseas.
I missed this article, probably because it was meerkats, but I agree Steve well done for ZooDoo. I did enjoy vsiiting them a couple of years ago.
State's first baby meerkats thrilling crowds with their active antics | The Mercury THE four baby meerkats at Richmond's Zoodoo Wildlife Park are thriving, says proud owner Trevor Cuttriss. Born in specially built burrows, the first African Kalahari native desert animals born in Tasmania are going strong. "They're going fantastic," Mr Cuttriss said. "They are lively, very tame and friendly, they'll climb all over you." And more are on the way with one of Zoodoo's meerkat family of 19 pregnant. Mothers give birth to four to six babies a litter. Mr Cuttriss said young meerkats remained popular with the crowds because they were so active, whereas Australian native animals such as wombats, quolls and possums preferred to sleep during daylight hours. The meerkats are fed on a diet of mealworms flown in from Queensland, fruit and chicken mince. Mr Cuttriss said the mealworm grub was very fattening and good for the animals. Meerkats are burrowing animals that live in large underground networks with many entrances, which they leave only during the day.
