The baby's birth weight was just 135 grams.
For the first few days after the baby female was born on Feb. 2, park keepers were worried because it was losing weight.A Chinese pangolin has been born in the Prague zoo, the first birth of the critically endangered animal in captivity in Europe, and is doing well after initial troubles, the park said on Thursday.
For the first few days after the baby female was born on Feb. 2, park keepers were worried because it was losing weight. The reason was found to be that the mother, Run Hou Tang, didn’t have enough milk. Following consultations with experts from Taiwan, a program of artificial feeding with milk from a cat was introduced and the mother was stimulated to produce more of her own.A keeper holds a baby Chinese pangolin for it to be weighed at the Prague Zoo, Czech Republic, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023.Sign up for NBC LA newsletters.
That turned things around, with the zoo now expressing cautious optimism about the pup, which still has no name but has been nicknamed “Little Cone” because it resembles a spruce cone. “We have only overcome the first hurdle and others are still waiting for us," zoo director Miroslav Bobek said.
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