BEIJING (Reuters) - The world's only koala twins, born seven months ago and raised in a south China zoo, have passed a critical development stage and now have a good chance of surviving, a zoo official said on Monday.
The koalas, born in October at Xiangjiang wildlife park in Guangzhou, capital of southern Guangdong province, are one of only two pairs of captive-born twins ever recorded, local media and zoo officials have said. The other pair was born at an Australian university laboratory in 1960.
"They are about 300 grams each, just like the size of a small human fist," a Xiangjiang zoo official told Reuters."(They are) a little bit smaller in size than average koalas their age, but they are growing well and are healthy," he told Reuters in a telephone interview.
Animal experts have said that chances of both twins surviving are small, but the now 7-month-old babies had successfully passed their most dangerous period.
3 comments:
Those Koalas are pretty neat. I've been mistaken for a koala on the beach before because I was cute and nice, but mainly because i was HAIRY!!
the koalas are ADORABLE!! I wannnnnnt one.
Given the chance, Koala bears will kill you and everyone you care about. Seriously, Koala bears look cute and cuddly, but they have razor-sharp claws and are very territorial.
Their closest relatives are wombats.
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