Yes, we’re entering the age of the baby boom. No, not our beloved home-owning generation that remembers listening to music on vinyl records and watching the first episode of “Saturday Night Live” ever aired. No, this time, there’s a new baby boom at the London Zoo. It’s a heartwarming moment for the world’s oldest scientific zoo (which opened in 1828) because six tiny, pint-sized additions were recently born there.
London Zoo! Photo credit: Canva
IfyouvisittheLondonZoo,you’llseethatmanyanimalsarepartofitsconservationbreedingprograms.Thismeansthattheyparticipateinauniqueinitiativetosavetheirspecies,hopingtoreturnthemtothewildsomeday.Andthere’smoregoodnews:LondonZooconservationistshavealreadysuccessfullybredandreintroducedvariousspeciesbackintothewild,suchasthePartulaSnail,NorthernBaldIbis,FenRaftSpider,andmanyothers.
So,whileverycute,thezoo’slatestadditionsalsoplayanessentialpartineachspecies’survivalandthezoo’soverallconservationefforts.Manyofthenewlybornspeciesareathighriskofextinctionbecausetheycannolongersurviveintheirnaturalhabitats
