Baby Tapir Slips And Then Chases Off Magpies

The cute baby Tapir from the Chester Zoo in England comes outside with it's mum. He still got all his stripes, which he will lose when he's about 6 month old.

He goes to investigate the mud puddle instead of using their nice clean pool. When he gets out of the mud puddle, all the mud is running down his legs, making the ground very slippery for him and he slips back in the puddle. He doesn't seem to mind and comes back for some more mud treatment. When he had enough he suddenly jumps out of the puddle runs like crazy along the grass and then he has fun chasing off all the magpies in his enclosure. Who would have known a Tapir can run that fast? 

Such a cutie. When his parents decide to go back in again he runs after them with such speed that he can't seem to stop himself and bumps into dad making him almost slip.

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Jambo Chews The Wood Wool Like Bubblegum

Jambo seems to enjoy what looks like a bit of wood wool that he is chewing like bubblegum. It is probably the same reason as the Gorillas scratch of the bark from tree branches to get the sodium (salt) from it. Sodium is significant for the healthy working of the living organisms and is part in muscle contractions, blood pressure and preserving water and acid-base balance.

Jambo Chews The Wood Wool Like Bubblegum

Jambo seems to enjoy what looks like a bit of wood wool that he is chewing like bubblegum. It is probably the same reason as the Gorillas scratch of the bark from tree branches to get the sodium (salt) from it. Sodium is significant for the healthy working of the living organisms and is part in muscle contractions, blood pressure and preserving water and acid-base balance.

Gorilla Lope Eating Ice From A Stick

The cold, but sunny weather brought some icy frost to some spots of the Gorillas home. Biddy is enjoying the winter sunshine with Lope being outside as well. The frost took over where the sun isn’t shining. Especially things like the stick that’s lying on the grass and the climbing frames are all covered in icy frost and we know the gorilla like their ice. In the summer it’s popsicles and in the winter snow and ice. Unfortunately not a lot of snow yet, but Lope is happy enough with the ice on the stick. Licking it from top to bottom. When he’s finished he goes up to the top of the climbing frame and gets some more and beating his chest a few of times, like he’s the king of the ice. When done he dismounts from the top and follows gran inside with his wobbly Lope walk that we love so much.

Lope Enjoying Some Winter Ice

Lope the 6 year old western lowland gorilla Lope loves to eat snow, unfortunately there isn't any yet, so he makes do with the frost on some of the climbing frame outside. He scrapes together the ice from the surface. He keeps running in and coming back out to get some more. Obviously just too cold to stay outside as the temperature dropped so quickly. He normally has to get in there before dad Oumbi steals it all, but today Oumbi stays inside in the warm.

The Twycross Gorilla Brothers

Lope sitting there sucking on his thumb, which I see him do on a regular basis now. Shufai wanting to play and keeps grabbing Lope until Oumbi is photo bombing my view with his backside :-) . 

When I get a view again, Shufai untangles himself from dad's legs and then the brothers continue their play around the big Silverback.  Dad keeps interrupting his sons play and you wish he would get properly involved and have a good play with the two.

The Twycross Gorilla Brothers

Lope sitting there sucking on his thumb, which I see him do on a regular basis now. Shufai wanting to play and keeps grabbing Lope until Oumbi is photo bombing my view with his backside :-) . 

When I get a view again, Shufai untangles himself from dad's legs and then the brothers continue their play around the big Silverback.  Dad keeps interrupting his sons play and you wish he would get properly involved and have a good play with the two.

Winter Sunshine For The Gorillas

The Twycross Gorilla family are enjoying the warm winter day. While Ozala is sitting in the wood wool with Shufai and grandma Biddy by the hut, Lope is grabbing some of the wood wool and moving it to a shady place under the climbing frame. His sweet face looking in the direction of the camera, with his warm breath being visible against of the cold air. When he had enough he just walks off, the Lope way.

Chimpanzee Enjoys Getting Her Nose Picked

This is Coco, the mum of Jambo. She also has alopecia like her son Jambo, but hasn't quite lost all of her hair. She has been with Twycross Zoo since 1969. She was born in 1965. 

She seems to enjoy getting her nose picked by what looks like her daughter. She has a real good go at mums nose and yes she does eat the bogey (booger) afterwards. "Lovely!"  lol

Gorilla Brothers Lope And Shufai

Elephant Baby Trying To Push Big Brother Into Water

These are the Elephant brothers from the Köln Zoo. I'm not sure what it is, but everytime I see baby male Elephants they seem to have the knack of annoying there much larger siblings. This one is trying it's best to push the bigger one into the water. Keep running up to him and pushing again.

Unfortunately I can't tell you their names as it is quite a big herd and this is the first time I've seen them.

Elephant Baby Trying To Push Big Brother Into Water

These are the Elephant brothers from the Köln Zoo. I'm not sure what it is, but everytime I see baby male Elephants they seem to have the knack of annoying there much larger siblings. This one is trying it's best to push the bigger one into the water. Keep running up to him and pushing again.

Unfortunately I can't tell you their names as it is quite a big herd and this is the first time I've seen them.

Orangutan Dad Is a Bit Rough With His Baby Son

The male borneo orangutan Batu is following his son Basuki through the outdoor enclosure. He keeps trying to grab his son, but he is getting away and climbs the net. He is not out of reach, so Batu pulls his son down. It all looks a bit rough and scary, especially when he opens his mouth close to the baby's head. He then carries Basuki away, until Basuki wiggles free again and is trying once more to get away. Dad follows and grabs him again by his little arms. I don't think Batu wanted to hurt the baby, he was just very determined to get his son inside and Basuki really didn't want to go. He did manage in the end, but it wasn't long before Basuki seem to escape again and came outside heading for the climbing net. When Batu came out again, little Basuki quickly headed for his mum.

Gorilla Lope's 6th Birthday Party

After the disappointment of Twycross not doing a public Birthday Party for Oumbi last year, I was happy that Twycross did do a Birthday Party for Lope yesterday. Unfortunately it looked like they were low on staff this time of year. Everything seemed to be very rushed and not a lot of thought has gone into the decoration. The family got lots of tree branches, scattered grains inside and outside, food pellets, cardboard tubes and gift wrapper that seemed to be covered with something as they licked this off later. I didn’t see any toys like they had last year like the rubber Kongs.

If you’ve seen last year’s video, you know Lope didn’t care too much for his Birthday party and was hiding! It wasn’t much different this year! He just came out grabbed one of the cardboard tubes and went outside straight away! Outside he was just looking for the scattered grain. Meanwhile inside at least the others enjoyed the different things in their enclosure. Especially Shufai ( just like last year) had a little dance when he saw all that wrapping paper. Biddy looked for the scattered grain, Asante had another tube. Ozala hid behind the inside tree. Back outside Lope stopped looking for grains and had a good go at one of the tubes. When he went back inside he continued to investigate the tube. Shufai found the flipped over Happy Birthday sign and flips it over again. Almost as to say look Brother is your Birthday, enjoy it a bit more! Lope just flicked at back around again to look for some more scattered food. More clips to come on Monday!

Baby Rhino And The Mud Puddle

The greater one-horned rhino calf Akeno not only loves to run around all day, he also loves his mud bath. As soon as he finds a mud puddle, that it. It has to be used. He rolls around in it, covering himself from both sites. With the puddle not being quite big enough to cover all of him, leaving a funny a dry stripe down the middle.
Also known as the greater one-horned rhinoceros and great Indian rhinoceros the baby was born at the Chester Zoo, Cheshire England at around 6pm on 3rd of May 2018. It is a male and they named him Akeno, meaning “beautiful sunrise”. Asha his 11 year old mum, had a 16 month pregnancy and only a 20-minute labour. The dad Beni is separated from these two, presumably for safety reasons.
Akeno is a big boost to the threatened species breeding programme. Did you know : a calf can drink 20-30 litres of milk per day and grows by 1-2 kg daily! They are excellent swimmers and can even dive!