At the age of 18, Heidi was the oldest brush ear pig living in European zoos.
Now the pig senior from the Nuremberg zoo had to be put to sleep.
Nuremberg * - In the Nuremberg
zoo
,
Heidi
, the
brush ear pig,
died in
early January
.
At 18 years of age, it was the oldest brush-eared pig living in European zoos.
The city of Nuremberg announced.
Nuremberg zoo: Heidi, a brush-eared pig, died - “pig senior” had to be put down
The animal was born in
Salzburg
in 2020
and has lived in Nuremberg since May 10, 2005. * On January 4, “the
senior pig had to be
euthanized due to age,” as the city explained.
The animal was by far the oldest brush ear pig in the conservation breeding program of the European Zoo Association (EEP).
"It speaks for the good care in the zoo that the brush ear pig was
able to reach
this
record age
", says the deputy zoo director Jörg Beckmann according to the press release.
Nuremberg zoo mourns Heidi the brush ear pig https://t.co/2sd9tmCMbB #franken pic.twitter.com/tslYGahzvA
- BR_Franken (@BR_Franken) January 13, 2021
Nuremberg zoo: brush ear pig Heidi dies - keeping of animals from Africa is running out
With Heidi, the keeping of the
brush-eared pigs
from
Africa
in the Nuremberg Zoo is
running
out.
“In the future, the animal species kept in the zoo's tropical house will come from the habitats in Southeast Asia.
These are mainly saddleback tapirs and deer boars, ”announced the city.
(kam / dpa) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen digital editorial network.
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