Lee Richardson Zoo welcomed a critically endangered addax calf
A female addax, a Saharan antelope with as few as 30 left in the wild, was born Oct. 3 through an Association of Zoos and Aquariums breeding program and has joined her family outdoors.
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Lee Richardson Zoo in Garden City welcomed a female addax calf born Oct. 3, KCLY Radio reported. The addax is a Saharan antelope with as few as 30 left in the wild. She was born through an Association of Zoos and Aquariums breeding program and has joined her family outdoors. The Oct. 3 birth is this calf. The figure of about 30 is the estimate for addax still in the wild, separate from the animals living in zoos.
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Lee Richardson Zoo in Garden City, Kansas, has a new addax calf, KCLY Radio reported. She is female and was born on Oct. 3. An addax is an antelope from the Sahara. As few as 30 may remain in the wild, which is why the species is called critically endangered. The calf was born through a breeding program of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, and she has gone outside to join her family. The 30 is an estimate of wild animals, not a count of addax living in zoos.
- Why do zoos breed an animal that is almost gone from the wild?
- What is the difference between animals in zoos and the 30 that may still live free?
- Why let a new calf join her family outdoors instead of keeping her inside?
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