“This is a milestone for the protection of this species,” Radoslaw Ratajszczak, director of the Wroclaw Zoo, said that the birth of the young had been filmed. Thanks to the video, the researchers will gain new knowledge about how cancers are born or what the young do in the first moments of their lives. It turned out that the cub born in Wroclaw on November 10 in the morning started to suck milk from his mother very quickly.
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The cub, which, according to Reuters, is about the size of a larger box of matches and weighs about 100 grams, is by nature shy and hiding. Therefore, experts have not yet been able to determine his gender.
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The only male black boar in European zoos lives in Wrocław and his name is Johnny English. Reproduction of these ungulates with related ties to deer or camels in captivity is difficult, because they are very sensitive animals and their breeders do not like to let them travel somewhere.
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The adult black boar weighs about two kilograms and is the size of a rabbit. In the wild, they occur on only three islands in the Philippines. They are in danger of extinction due to hunting and oil palm plantations.
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Five years ago, a young black boar was also born in the Prague Zoo, a descendant of a male living in Wroclaw.
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