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Added on the 26/01/2017 12:30:00 - Copyright : Cover Video EN
A cute and curious cotton-top tamarin monkey which bears an uncanny resemblance to the late German theoretical physicist Albert Einstein was welcomed to Roev Ruchei Zoo in Krasnoyarsk on October 26 and he's been winning hearts ever since. With around 6,000 cotton-top tamarins left worldwide, the species is critically endangered and one of the rarest primates on earth.
Prince Harry and Meghan visit Taronga Zoo in Sydney as part of a high-profile Pacific trip. IMAGES
These eight baby hedgehogs lost their mother in a lawnmower accident and the newly born hoglets were in desperate need of milk and affection. Luckily, after searching around at Sadgorod Zoo in the Russian city of Vladivostok, the hoglets found an unlikely wet-nurse in Musya the cat, who still had milk from feeding foster kittens. Prior to their adoption, the baby hedgehogs refused to be fed from a bottle or syringe and still blind, and were beginning to starve. The zoo was left with little choice but to try putting the mammals together with a new mother.
A rare female newborn blue-eyed black lemur, Ikopa, was moved to the La Palmyre Zoo nursery in Les Mathes, France to receive special care due to her fragility and low weight. Born on April 9, Ikopa continues to receive special care from her keepers, who feel her milk every two hours, as well as bits of fruits and vegetables. While Ikopa musters up enough strength to leave her incubators, her parents and older brother can maintain visual contact with her from their adjacent cage. Blue-eyed black lemurs, like all true lemurs can only be found on the African island nation of Madagascar and their numbers have drastically fallen. These primates are classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as "critically endangered" because humans have cut down nearly all the forest areas which these animals call home to clear land for farming. It is believed that as few as 1,000 blue-eyed black lemurs remain in the wild.
Footage provided courtesy of the Oakland Zoo shows an orphan baby wallaroo being cared for by zookeepers after the joey's mother died due to an infection at the beginning of March. Oakland zookeepers bottle-fed the joey with a special high-grade baby formula, while the baby wallaroo lay comfortably on the lap of the caregiver. The baby wallaroo is a male, approximately five months old and has no name as of yet. Wallaroos belong to the macropod family, and are a medium-sized marsupial between kangaroos and wallabies, hence the name wallaroo.
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