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Young animals raised at the conservation center will be sold or traded to other breeding centers, while animals beyond reproductive age will be given to zoos that, can’t- afford the space and commitment for breeding programs of their own, Wemmer said.
The forty-some animals now at the conservation center are mostly hooved stock, such as zebras, camels, scimitar horned oryx, -Pere David’s deer, Eld’s deer, bongo antelopes. Hooved stock is easier to care for, and the zoo staff wanted to keep that in mind as they got the program established. They don’t need to be kept inside during the winter, or rather they adjust t fairly well to the Virginia climate; they don’t need much food since tlmy graze or brouse for themselves; they’re easier to clean up after than meat eaters, and they’re easier to keep up with, most of them, according to Leo Slaughter, who is in charge of the animal operation at the conservation center.
That last aspect is important to Slaughter. Every day, he has to account for every animal of every
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