Small loons can be seen at the Riga National Zoo, according to information published by the Zoo Information Service.
The Riga National Zoo indicates that last winter the “veteran” of the Riga Zoo, a 10-year-old lynx Ruby, was introduced to the less than three-year-old lynx Dadzi, and the family was expected to grow only next summer. But the experienced father of 10 lusen “from a previous relationship” did not waste time. He created two healthy and carefree lynxes born at the end of May – a boy and a girl, who were already briskly present to the zoo visitors, plucking into the sand of the hostel and climbing the swamps.
Jēkabpils County Council will organize the naming of lynxes, as the coat of arms of Jēkabpils city is decorated with lynxes and the city has been helping to take care of the lynxes of the Riga Zoo for eight years and the names of animals to be entered in the European lynx pedigree register. The lynxes from Jēkabpils have previously given quite loud names to the lynxes born at the Riga Zoo – Jakobīne, Hercogs, Jete, Lūsija, Ambera, Jēkabs, Jākobs.
Before giving the name to the celebration, at the age of two months, lusks are still waiting for a complex vaccination. The zoo, on the other hand, asks visitors to follow the rules of the zoo’s internal procedures and not to get too close to the lynx’s house so as not to disturb the young family.
In many parts of Europe, the Eurasian lynx, including the northern lynx of its Latvian subspecies, is seriously endangered in the wild and it is very important to fully preserve this species in captivity, so since 2002 all data have been compiled in the European Lynx Pedigree (ESB). Both the lynx Ruby, which was once found in the yard of Vidzeme house, and the lynx Dadze, which was brought from Vilaka forests to the zoo by foresters, have no relatives in European zoos, which makes the possible offspring of this lynx pair especially valuable in the European lynx conservation project.
The number of lynxes raised in captivity by Ruby and his former “coworker”, Camellia, had become sufficient, so Camellia was sent to Poland to allow Rubin to start a new family. The couple’s 10 offspring once reached Poland, where a lynx restoration program is being implemented with the support of the World Wide Fund for Nature, as well as Finland and elsewhere. In total, after 20 years of participating in the lynx breeding program, cats born in Riga and the Riga Zoo branch “Cīruļi” have been sent to zoos in Estonia, Lithuania, Scotland, Finland, Spain, Hungary, Ukraine and elsewhere.
The lynx, born in 2014 and named the Duke of Jēkabpils, together with Lūsija, born in “Cīrīļi”, now lives in the Kobe Zoo of the Riga Commonwealth. The conservation of endangered species in captivity is a rather complicated process, which also includes “calculating marriages”, but it ensures the achievement of the main result – the genetically complete conservation of an endangered animal species.
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