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Eggs raise hopes for endangered stick insect


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Keepers at a British zoo are celebrating the appearance of five eggs that suggest an attempt to save one of the world’s rarest creatures – the Lord Howe Island stick insect – is working.

The eggs were found at Bristol zoo gardens, which is part of a global effort to prevent the animals becoming extinct.

The zoo’s effort to save the species, which hails from a remote Australian island, began in 2015, when 300 eggs, carefully packed in sterilised sand, arrived from Melbourne zoo.

Six animals reached adulthood – three breeding pairs – and produced eggs, which started hatching in May 2017. Five of those survived and have now produced eggs of their own.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/08/bristol-zoo-eggs-raise-hopes-for-endangered-stick-insect

Related:

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/topic/312201-stick-insects-declared-extinct-still-living/

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