A flight of Airberlin from Dusseldorf recently brought to the Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas Airport a very special passenger and that is that on board a carrier the Koala arrived Kuna, green leaf in aboriginal language. This is the new male koala (phascolarctos cinereus) male from Zoo Aquarium in Madrid that has become the companion of Caloundra Y Bengero, a female and a male of 13 and 11 years, respectively. On his first day of adaptation, Kuna, who will turn 10 on September 22, 2014, was accompanied by one of his caretakers at the Duisburg Zoo and a team of Zoo Aquarium in Madrid formed by conservation, veterinary and their new caregivers , all of them expectant before the reaction of the koala in their first contact.
Kuna appeared in the space they have prepared for him, calm and relaxed, to observe his new surroundings and, immediately after, climb up to one of the branches of his interior bedroom to sniff and taste the first Eucalyptus leaves. We will still have to wait for the public to meet Kuna, since during these first weeks, it will remain in a private space to facilitate its initial adaptation where it will recover the usual rhythm of a koala's dream, Of nails 20 hours / day, in a conditioned environment at a constant temperature between 20 and 25 degrees Celsius. After that time, you will have your own exterior bedroom next to those of Caloundra Y Bengero. These little ones arboreal herbivores they usually live alone and develop little activity during the day, therefore, as a new male reproductive of the group, will only come into contact with the female during the usual jealousy that occurs in spring and summer.
In these first days, the newcomer will not only enjoy a lot of tranquility but also the most select food based on a Exclusive diet of up to 15 varieties of fresh eucalyptus transported especially from Huelva, on a weekly basis. The koalas, authentic tree foodiesThey are very demanding when choosing the eucalyptus plant species, depending on the day. Therefore, in their own installation of Zoo Aquarium in Madrid they have cold store where the exclusive delicacy that is carefully placed in the trees is stored. During the four short hours they remain awake, they slowly stretch their arm, select the leaves, sniff them and finally, chew them until they become porridge.
In May 2001, the first copies of Koala arrived in Spain from San Diego. Its conservation, in Madrid Aquarium Zoo, is part of the European breeding program, which currently comprises 37 specimens distributed in zoos in Germany, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Austria, France, Belgium and Spain.
In the coming weeks, once the adaptation period has elapsed, the public will be able to meet Kuna in his exterior bedroom, the new male of the Zoo Aquarium in Madrid that, from now on, will be part of the Koala reproductive group with Caloundra and Bengero.
We can only welcome you to Green leaf, a new adoptive Madrid who arrives in Madrid and who will have to go to see the Madrid Zoo.
