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Zoo Calls for Hushed Tones With New Baby Koalas

Zoo Calls for Hushed Tones With New Baby Koalas

  The Taipei City Zoo is advising visitors to the koala enclosure to keep their voices down, as two new born koalas are being nursed by their mothers. Zoo staff discovered the two joeys in the pouches of 7-year-old Empress and 3-year-old Nicole in early October. According to the zoo, the newborns have not yet...Continue reading
Alpaca to Take Weekly Stroll at the Taipei Zoo

Alpaca to Take Weekly Stroll at the Taipei Zoo

Visitors to the Taipei Zoo will now have a chance to get up-close and personal with a popular zoo resident every week. Zoo officials say every Tuesday from 10:45 to 11 in the morning, Billy the Alpaca will take a walk along the pathways in the children’s area. A keeper will be on-hand during these...Continue reading
Giant Panda Cub Yuan Zai Celebrates Her First Birthday at Taipei Zoo

Giant Panda Cub Yuan Zai Celebrates Her First Birthday at Taipei Zoo

Giant panda cub – Yuan Zai – celebrated her first birthday Sunday with a giant fruit cake Sunday. The 34-kilogram cub was also showed several bamboo branches decorated with signs reading different professions — a unique take on the common practice of a one-year-old child choosing from different items symbolizing various jobs. Yuan Zai’s picks...Continue reading