The Newest, Cutest Baby Animals from the World's Zoos & Aquariums
A mother West African Crowned Crane keeps a beady eye on her new charge as it takes its first steps at Chester Zoo. The little crane – which one day will grow up to look as unusual as its attentive mum – is the first to be bred in the UK.
Female cranes can have up to five chicks in one go, but mum seems perfectly content to take just one under her wing. (On an noneducational note… crane chicks look like dinosaur chickens to us)
Well, even dinosaur chicks are cute :0)
Poor baby looks a little lost.
Actually it is not the first of it’s kind to be bred in the UK
Rob, you may certainly be correct. We took that info from the Chester Zoo press release. Do you know where they have been bred previously in the UK?
Rode Tropical Bird Gardens bred the first chick of this species in the UK in 1979. I don’t know who else has bred them, but I think it is more than Chester and Rode.
Time for the obligatory “birds are dinosaurs” comment? Still d**n cute. I think fuzzy, baby [non-avian] dinos must have been pretty cute too.
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