Video shows baby armadillo born at Newquay Zoo in first for UK this year
Keepers at the zoo are hand rearing the animal to better its chances of survival
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Your support makes all the difference.Newquay Zoo has welcomed the first baby armadillo of the year to be born in Britain.
Keepers at the zoo have been hand-rearing the six-banded armadillo in order to give him the best possible chance of survival.
“We’ve been up through the night to bottle-feed him, which can prove very tiring, but it’s all worth it,” Sam Harley, head keeper at the zoo, said.
The baby was born to resident armadillos at the zoo – father Wallace and mother Gromit.
The zoo is only one of 10 in the UK to house the six-banded armadillo. Known also as the yellow armadillo, the animal is native to South America and usually measures between 40 and 50 centimetres long.
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