The newly arrived female koala has settled in well at Leipzig Zoo. "Our new female Erlinga has been here at Leipzig Zoo for a good week now and, to our delight, everything is going just as we imagined," zookeeper Philipp Hünemeyer told the German Press Agency on Thursday. The two-year-old animal came to Leipzig from Duisburg Zoo last week.
According to the zoo, the transfer followed a recommendation from the European Endangered Species Programme (EEP) for the breeding of endangered species, which includes the koala. Together with the three-year-old male koala Yuma, Erlinga will soon provide for offspring: from the age of around three years, a female koala can bear babies, explained Hünemeyer.
There are three koalas in total at Leipzig Zoo. The new arrival Erlinga shares the enclosure with the six-year-old female Mandie. According to Leipzig Zoo, Mandie has already successfully raised a cub in 2020.
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