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Born two white lions at zoo in Puebla, Mexico
Numbi, a female two years and four months old, gave birth to three puppies (two females and one male), of which only two females survived
BIRTH. The white lion is very difficult to survive in their habitat, because the coloring is not up to being able to mimic the attacks of hunting, as the dams could see very easily or predators could attack puppies. (Photo: Reuters)
San Andres Cholula, Puebla. | Friday 20 July 2012
Notimex | The Universal
11:22
Two puppies white lions born in Puebla Loro Park Zoo in this town, where visitors look and how they receive their first food in the care of veterinarians and trained staff.
Carlos Gomez Medina, a veterinarian and manager of Animal Welfare Collection and Loro Park Puebla, said this is the only zoo in Puebla has white lions .
He said that in the country are only two parks that have this kind as it is in a state of extinction.
In an interview with Notimex, said that during the previous day, Numbi , a female two years and four months old, gave birth to three puppies (two females and one male), of which only two females survived and are now part the attractiveness of the park.
Delivery of Numbi is the first documented in the history of the white lions.
This, because through the portal www.veloenvivo.com were followed in this process since the first contractions were recorded at 7:00 hours, until the process ended with the arrival of three cubs, little after 14:00 hours.
The first cub was born at 10:00 pm, the second came at 10:40 hours and the third copy arrived about 14:00, but did not survive as it was in the wrong, ie, the train later was the first and last head, when the correct position for birth is reversed, so that suffering was born.
"Visitors to the park and followers through social networks and some have designated names for baby white lions, which was chosen as full moon, and is choosing another name for her sister," Gomez said Medina.
The father of the puppies, weighing between 900 and 20 thousand grams, Timbavati , a lion of three years. He came to Puebla from Africa when he was seven months old, while the female came from a zoo in Guadalajara, Jalisco, when he was two months old.
After a process of living and socialization copulations were achieved and lasted 113 days gestation in Numbi. The number of layers of white lions range from two to five cubs, so in this case to have three pups was a pregnancy within the normal range.
The mother lioness, which is gilt, is in good health, but not immediately awaken your mother instinct puppies were removed and remain in the artificial breeding area, where trained staff are fed every two hours and observed 24 hours a day.
They eat about 50 to 100 milliliters of milk especially for wild carnivore, milk formula that will be given during the first three months later to begin with the consumption of chicken and red meat.
Through the web portal www.veloenvivo.com thousands of people from Yugoslavia, France, Germany, USA and South America were able to witness live this historic birth, where he devoted himself to monitor more than one month from the life of a pair of white lions.
The white lions are a variation of yellow lions that most people know, and there is great excitement among visitors to the park because it is a very rare, as it is in critical danger of extinction.
The white lions are located, although in low number of copies, in South Africa, reservations highly localized and only in the reserves and in captivity is like this variant can be found in mammals.
The white lion is very difficult to survive in their habitat, because the coloring is not up to being able to mimic the attacks of hunting, as the dams could see very easily or predators could attack puppies.
Spanish-English translation
Born two white lions at zoo in Puebla, Mexico
Numbi, a female two years and four months old, gave birth to three puppies (two females and one male), of which only two females survived
BIRTH. The white lion is very difficult to survive in their habitat, because the coloring is not up to being able to mimic the attacks of hunting, as the dams could see very easily or predators could attack puppies. (Photo: Reuters)
San Andres Cholula, Puebla. | Friday 20 July 2012
Notimex | The Universal
11:22
Two puppies white lions born in Puebla Loro Park Zoo in this town, where visitors look and how they receive their first food in the care of veterinarians and trained staff.
Carlos Gomez Medina, a veterinarian and manager of Animal Welfare Collection and Loro Park Puebla, said this is the only zoo in Puebla has white lions .
He said that in the country are only two parks that have this kind as it is in a state of extinction.
In an interview with Notimex, said that during the previous day, Numbi , a female two years and four months old, gave birth to three puppies (two females and one male), of which only two females survived and are now part the attractiveness of the park.
Delivery of Numbi is the first documented in the history of the white lions.
This, because through the portal www.veloenvivo.com were followed in this process since the first contractions were recorded at 7:00 hours, until the process ended with the arrival of three cubs, little after 14:00 hours.
The first cub was born at 10:00 pm, the second came at 10:40 hours and the third copy arrived about 14:00, but did not survive as it was in the wrong, ie, the train later was the first and last head, when the correct position for birth is reversed, so that suffering was born.
"Visitors to the park and followers through social networks and some have designated names for baby white lions, which was chosen as full moon, and is choosing another name for her sister," Gomez said Medina.
The father of the puppies, weighing between 900 and 20 thousand grams, Timbavati , a lion of three years. He came to Puebla from Africa when he was seven months old, while the female came from a zoo in Guadalajara, Jalisco, when he was two months old.
After a process of living and socialization copulations were achieved and lasted 113 days gestation in Numbi. The number of layers of white lions range from two to five cubs, so in this case to have three pups was a pregnancy within the normal range.
The mother lioness, which is gilt, is in good health, but not immediately awaken your mother instinct puppies were removed and remain in the artificial breeding area, where trained staff are fed every two hours and observed 24 hours a day.
They eat about 50 to 100 milliliters of milk especially for wild carnivore, milk formula that will be given during the first three months later to begin with the consumption of chicken and red meat.
Through the web portal www.veloenvivo.com thousands of people from Yugoslavia, France, Germany, USA and South America were able to witness live this historic birth, where he devoted himself to monitor more than one month from the life of a pair of white lions.
The white lions are a variation of yellow lions that most people know, and there is great excitement among visitors to the park because it is a very rare, as it is in critical danger of extinction.
The white lions are located, although in low number of copies, in South Africa, reservations highly localized and only in the reserves and in captivity is like this variant can be found in mammals.
The white lion is very difficult to survive in their habitat, because the coloring is not up to being able to mimic the attacks of hunting, as the dams could see very easily or predators could attack puppies.