Peacocks, ostriches, and baboons joined the surge in a Palestinian zoo in the number of newborns, during the general isolation measures imposed to counter the emerging "Corona" virus, which allowed nature to take its course away from the factors of distraction by the presence of humans.
Qalqilya Zoo officials in the occupied West Bank said that 15 newborns were born in the park during the two months they closed their doors to visitors, which is three times the normal birth rate.
Sami Khidr, the veterinarian at the park, said: “The time when it became (Corona) was when there were schools, and there were school trips and works like a heck, of course all of it was canceled. Thus the animals began to produce. I mean, for example, we have ostriches, when they were bleaching a long time, they did not make the nest with their own products and sat on the nest, but in this period, because there is no movement around them, they think about doing the nest and landing the eggs ». In the monkey barn, which usually witnesses miscarriages, a baboon gave birth to her newborn, although she had little inclination to care for the newborn. Hind Khadr, the daughter of the veterinarian, said: “Baba was forced to answer it to us at home, because there was no one there that if he was left there he would die, so he answered and I naturally cared about him .. Of course this is not the first monkey I raised him, before him nine and this is the tenth One by God. ”
The park was reopened in late May, with Palestinian officials relaxing restrictions imposed to tackle the "Covid 19" epidemic. Supervisors of the park now hope that the newborns will have enough reason to attract more visitors, who lost about 200 thousand visitors.
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A newborn in the month of closure, which is three times the normal birth rate.