Two rescued moose calves are headed to Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
Two orphaned moose calves, about 7 months old, raised by The Alaska Zoo's rescue program are traveling to Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, where keepers prepared a yard for them in Rocky Mountain Wild.
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Two orphaned moose calves, roughly 7 months old, are traveling from The Alaska Zoo's rescue program to Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, KRDO reported. Keepers have prepared a yard for them in Rocky Mountain Wild so the young moose have a place ready when they arrive. The calves were raised in the Alaska rescue program. The move is underway toward that prepared yard, which is the new home the zoo has set up for them.
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Two orphaned moose calves, about 7 months old, are moving from Alaska to Colorado, KRDO reported. The Alaska Zoo's rescue program raised them. They are traveling to Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs. Keepers there prepared a yard in the Rocky Mountain Wild area so the young moose have a safe place. An orphaned animal is one whose parents are gone. The trip is how they get from the rescue program to the zoo. The story describes them as traveling, not as already settled in for years.
- Why would a zoo prepare a yard before young animals arrive?
- What is different about a calf raised by people and a calf raised by a mother moose?
- Why move animals from one state to a zoo in another?
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