The Saint Louis Zoo welcomed its first Przewalski's horse foal
Aylin, born in July to Nika and Ziggy at WildCare Park, adds to a species once extinct in the wild and brought back through zoo breeding.
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The Saint Louis Zoo has its first Przewalski's horse foal, FOX 2 St. Louis reported. Aylin was born in July at WildCare Park to Nika and Ziggy. Przewalski's horses were once extinct in the wild, and zoo breeding is what brought the species back. Aylin is this zoo's first foal of that horse. She is a new birth in a breeding effort that already pulled the species out of extinction in the wild, not a claim about how many now roam free.
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The Saint Louis Zoo has its first Przewalski's horse foal, FOX 2 reported. Her name is Aylin. She was born in July at WildCare Park to Nika and Ziggy. A foal is a baby horse. Przewalski's horses were once extinct in the wild, meaning none were left living free, and zoos bred them so the species could exist again. Aylin is the Saint Louis Zoo's first foal of this kind. She is one birth in that longer breeding effort, not a count of every horse now living outside zoos.
- How can a species that disappeared from the wild still have a foal in a zoo?
- Why does a first foal at one zoo matter to animals that live in many places?
- What is the difference between a horse born in a park and a horse born in the wild?
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