More than 150 species of animals have brought forth over 1 000 younglings this year at the Central Zoo, a base for cultural and leisure activities of the people.
The most pleasing news is that Korean tigers have had a litter of eight cubs this year.
“They reproduced three in March, four in July and another one in October,” said Kim Sun Ok, Merited Keeper at the tiger house of the zoo, describing it as an unprecedentedly happy event.
At present, visitors to the zoo are pleased to see little cubs frolicking around, climbing up and down man-made rocks in the house.
An Asiatic black bear gave birth to a female cub. The cub weighed about 500 grams, but is now dozens of kilograms.
Gift animals, a source of pride of the Central Zoo, also brought forth many younglings.
According to senior official Hyon Sun Il, 40-odd species of them reproduced over 120 younglings.
A rare parrot was hatched in January and a pet dog gave birth to two male puppies, each being about 110 grams in weight and about 10 centimetres in body length at birth. In April, a filial generation of lemur procreated a baby.
In particular, a Humboldt penguin, recognized as a species difficult to breed, reproduced a youngling.
Newcomers also settled down at the Central Zoo this year.
Among them are a pair of Haliaeetus albicilla presented to General Secretary Kim Jong Un by the director of the Moscow Zoo in April and some 40 other animals in 19 species presented by the zoo.
The employees at the house of birds of prey remodelled the environment and conditions according to ecological features of the “new residents” in a short period, based on an in-depth study of their ways of life and breeding, and those at the house of small animals made painstaking efforts to understand the eating habit of a rare kind of deer mouse and solved the feed problem according to the specific conditions of the zoo.
Hyon attributed such successes in increasing breeding rate to the efforts of all employees who created good living environments for animals, improved their nutrition and conducted anti-epizootic work in a scientific and far-sighted way.
The “new residents” at the Central Zoo add more pleasure to visitors to the zoo, especially schoolchildren.
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