Copenhagen Zoo's First Baby Wombat Peeks Out of Mother's Pouch

The first baby wombat born at Denmark’s Copenhagen Zoo was recently captured on film peeking out of its mother’s pouch.This newest footage, uploaded on April 18, shows the baby who is “almost too big to stay in the pouch, and will soon leave it to venture outside,” according to the zoo. Zookeepers first learned that the mother wombat, a species from Tasmania, was pregnant in late December, 2016, according to reports from The Copenhagen Post and Metroxpress at the time.Only 11 Tasmanian wombats are kept in various European zoos, according to the reports, and reproduction between the mammals in these zoos is rare. According to a Hungary Today report from March, in the last 25 years, the Budapest Zoo had been the only European zoo to see wombat births.