Toronto Zoo Baby Zebra Birth Announcement

Cute 🦓 alert. Tori, our eight-year-old Grevy’s zebra, gave birth to a male foal in the early morning hours on Wednesday February 13th. Both mom and foal are doing well and are both currently in the indoor zebra habitat which is not viewable to the public at this time.
This birth is important for Grevy’s zebra conservation as the species is currently listed as Endangered on the IUCN’s Red List, with only 2,800 left in the wild. Grevy's zebras were first put on the IUCN list in 1986 after their population began to decline due to overhunting in the late 1970s. Today, Grevy's zebras are primarily found in Kenya and Ethiopia and, over the past 30 years, their global population has declined by approximately 70%. The major threats facing Grevy's zebras are the loss of grazing habitat and reduced access to available water sources, competition for resources, hunting, and disease. #BabyStripes

[@mariaelenadiduszyn462]

Wonderful

[@eponack]

The fuzz! I can’t handle it!!!

[@smokeycat2011]

Beautiful!!!!

[@holotape]

Congratulations! I guess we have to wait for warmer weather to see him?