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New Zoo Babies at Florida Zoo

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Baby black and white ruffed lemur

The Brevard Zoo in Melbourne, Florida is host to a slew of new baby animals.  Pictured above is a five-week-old black and white ruffed lemur baby.  The zoo also welcomed a baby spider monkey and a Florida sandhill crane.  The baby crane’s father is actually a wild crane who flew into the zoo.

For more info: Florida Today

It’s a Girl! Baby Visayan Warty Pig Born in Florida Zoo

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

On September 17, Melbourne, Florida’s Brevard Zoo welcomed a new arrival: a female Visayan warty piglet. In the wild, Visayan warty pigs are critically endangered forest dwellers living in the Philippines. While they once roamed all six islands, Visayan warty pigs have become extinct on four of them. The Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) had appealed to zoos to participate in an emergency breeding program to help stabilize the Visayan warty pig population.

Visayan Warty Piglet and mother

For more information:
Florida Today, ‘It’s a piglet!’
Brevard Zoo’s Visayan Pig Page

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