DC animal lovers were hit with a triple dose of adorable this week as the Smithsonian's National Zoo announced several new babies: two lesser kudu calves and one teensy golden-headed lion tamarin.
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The Smithsonian National Zoo has been the talk of the town since baby giant panda cub Xiao Qi Ji arrived, but now another adorable baby has arrived.
Keepers at the zoo s Cheetah Conservation Station are celebrating the arrival of a new male lesser kudu calf who was born Mar. 28 to 7-year-old mother Rogue and 10-year-old father Garrett. He s the third for both parents following older brothers Kushukuru and Toba, both born in 2019.
What is a kudu?
According to the National Zoo, the animals are native to arid and semi-arid areas of northeastern Africa, including parts of Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania. The lesser kudu are listed as near threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Lesser kudu number about 100,000 in the wild, but the population is decreasing due to habitat loss from human and livestock expansion, hunting and disease, t
The Smithsonian’s National Zoo announced on Thursday that they are celebrating the birth of a male lesser kudu calf at its Cheetah Conservation Station.
The male lesser kudu calf was born on March 28 and found to be healthy and strong, according to the Zoo’s veterinarians who examined him the next day.
He is the third calf born to his seven-year-old mother
Rogue and 10-year-old father
Kushukuru and
Toba.
Rogue was transferred to the National Zoo from the St. Louis Zoo in Missouri in October 2016 to breed with Garrett, after it was recommended by scientists at the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ Species Survival Plan (SSP).