Aardvark calf born at Chester zoo is ‘doing brilliantly’ after bottle-feeding
The Guardian World ·
Inside a heated incubator at Chester zoo, a wrinkled newborn aardvark nicknamed “Womble” spent its first weeks being bottle-fed milk through the night by keepers determined to keep the rare calf …
Inside a heated incubator at Chester zoo, a wrinkled newborn aardvark nicknamed “Womble” spent its first weeks being bottle-fed milk through the night by keepers determined to keep the rare calf healthy. Sophie Tyson said feeding Womble ‘was really exciting, and really tiring’. Photograph: Joel Goodman/The Guardian Named after the creatures in Elisabeth Beresford’s children’s books and the subsequent animated TV series, the nocturnal animal is only the second aardvark born at the zoo in its …
Original source: The Guardian World