Do you know that West Midlands Safari Park has a novel technique on the subject of newborns? All the child animals born in the identical yr are given a reputation with the identical letter of the alphabet.
It implies that once you uncover an animal’s identify on the park, you may get an concept of how previous they’re.
The system has been in place for 14 years on the Worcestershire attraction, beginning with the letter A again in 2011.
Three child tiger cubs had been born on January 17 and they are going to be named after their gender is found throughout their eight-week well being verify subsequent month. They’ll every have a reputation starting with the letter N.
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Angela Potter, Head of Wildlife at West Midlands Safari Park, mentioned: “We’ve got been making our means by means of the alphabet and for 2025 we’re as much as N.
“We discover this a really helpful technique to know the ages of our animals in a short time, with out having to go looking in our file system.
“That is the 14th yr of us utilizing this technique, so if we would have liked to know the way previous Alice, one among our camels is, we are able to say right away that she is 14.
“Our very particular Sumatran tiger cubs, would be the first animals to have names beginning with the letter N. After all, this solely works for animals which are born at WMSP.
“If an animal arrives from one other assortment, it could already be named, and we’d not change that! No system will be good, however it works very well for us and we have now provide you with some very distinctive names!”
The animal keepers have had a busy begin to the yr by finishing the annual animal depend – from the giraffes to the colonies of tiny fruit beetles.
“This yr, greater than a thousand people had been counted, with some new additions rising the numbers, together with a number of child animals, born in 2024 and a few new arrivals from different wildlife parks.”
