A new foal was born overnight at Canberra's zoo surprising zookeepers the following morning.
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00:03 I went up to feed our Barbary sheep at around 8 o'clock
00:05 and as I was putting the food out for the Barbary sheep,
00:07 I looked over to check our zebras.
00:10 I saw Keeva and I thought, "Oh, she looks a bit funny.
00:12 Her belly isn't quite as big and she has too many legs."
00:15 And I was like, "Oh my gosh, we have a baby."
00:17 And yeah, I was very excited.
00:19 We are just waiting to see if it's a boy or a girl
00:23 and then from there we'll kind of look at names
00:25 and yeah, get to that.
00:27 In the past, we have kind of tried to follow
00:30 with the first letter of mum's name,
00:31 but we have too many K names and too many J names
00:34 from our other mare.
00:35 So we might try and do something different this time.
00:37 You know, normally the foals try and stay really close to mum
00:40 and mum is really protective,
00:41 but this foal is more than happy to go
00:43 and annoy its big brothers and dad,
00:45 which is yeah, funny to watch.
00:46 So the new little foal is doing really well.
00:49 So obviously one of the first things we want to see
00:51 is that they're up and about and moving around.
00:53 They're really active.
00:54 We definitely want to see them drinking from mum
00:55 quite early on and so far we're seeing all of those things
00:59 and mum herself is being really healthy also.
01:01 So she's protecting her foal.
01:03 You know, she's still interacting with the rest of the group as well.
01:06 Do all the right things.
01:07 So we're really happy with how they're progressing at the moment.
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