LONDON (AP) — Staff at London Zoo bought the measure of big gorillas, plump penguins and thin stick bugs on the zoo’s annual animal weigh-in on Thursday.
Zookeepers tempted squirrel monkeys onto scales with treats, totted up tarantulas and used a curry-scented measuring persist with coax Sumatran tigers to stretch out.
Staff on the zoo, which is dwelling to some 14,000 animals, will take a number of days to weigh and measure each mammal, chicken, reptile, fish and invertebrate in its care. The outcomes go right into a database that’s shared with zoos around the globe.
“We document the very important statistics of each animal on the zoo — from the tallest giraffe to the tiniest tadpole,” stated Angela Ryan, the power’s head of zoological operations.
Ryan stated an animal’s weight is significant info that may reveal whether or not creatures are healthy, and even that are pregnant.
“We have critically endangered animals right here,” she stated. “It’s absolutely vital that we are managing them, managing their health, that we’re breeding them and breeding them well and we’re having healthy offspring that can breed on again.”
