EXCEPTIONAL TWINS HAVE KEEPERS JUMPING FOR JOY!

Keepers at Blackpool Zoo thought they were seeing double when they spotted an extremely rare set of Red-necked wallaby twins in their Wallaby Walkabout exhibit. In fact, multiple births are so infrequent that the zoo’s Animal Manager, Peter Dillingham, who is also the Vice-Chair of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria’s Monotreme & Marsupial Taxon Advisory Group, has never personally witnessed twins sharing one pouch during his 39 year career. The two tiny joeys, which were first noticed by specialist keepers at the zoo a week ago, belong to a three-year-old Red-necked wallaby