Baby bactrian camel born in Wales

Colwyn Bay Welsh Mountain Zoo is the home to new baby camel "Scrummy" , the first bactrian camel born in Wales
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Scrummy's a real mummy's girl Apr 5 2006

By David Powell, Daily Post

BABY camel Scrummy makes her first public appearance at Colwyn Bay Welsh Mountain Zoo yesterday.

Scrummy became the first Bactrian camel to be born in Wales when proud mum Flanka gave birth on February 16.

Bactrian camels are highly endangered with only 1,000 remaining in the wild, and the zoo is part of a carefully controlled international captive species breeding programme.

Mum Flanka and dad Lock - named in the aftermath of the Rugby World Cup - are enjoying the company of their lively new offspring who, while cute and cuddly now, will grow to be


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Scrummy's a real mummy's girl Apr 5 2006




By David Powell, Daily Post






BABY camel Scrummy makes her first public appearance at Colwyn Bay Welsh Mountain Zoo yesterday.

Scrummy became the first Bactrian camel to be born in Wales when proud mum Flanka gave birth on February 16.

Bactrian camels are highly endangered with only 1,000 remaining in the wild, and the zoo is part of a carefully controlled international captive species breeding programme.

Mum Flanka and dad Lock - named in the aftermath of the Rugby World Cup - are enjoying the company of their lively new offspring who, while cute and cuddly now, will grow to be 2.4m (seven feet) tall and will weigh three quarters of a tonne.


Zoo director Nick Jackson said: "It is wonderful that we now have a genuine Welsh baby for our visitors to admire.


"Camels are big, beautiful and delightfully smelly creatures. They grab respect and admiration from children and adults."


Bactrian camels are the two-humped variety and are found in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia and in the Gashun Gobi in China.


They featured in the BBC's Planet Earth documentary on Sunday, when viewers watched a dramatic chase across a desert to film the timid creatures.


They are recognised by the International Union for Conservation and Nature (IUCN) as highly endangered.

for info on saving wild bactrian camels visit: www.wildcamels.com