Tori the Grevy’s Zebra Pregnancy Update

Tori the Grevy’s Zebra is officially within her birthing window! 🦓 Grevy’s zebra have a gestation of between 358-438 days, and this week marks the absolute earliest time she could give birth. This is based on the first successful breeding that was witnessed last fall with stallion Jake. Keepers have been closely monitoring her progress, and don’t think she will be having her foal quite this soon. The best estimate is that we’ll have a new baby zebra mid-October! Even with a solid timeline of her pregnancy, Keepers are monitoring and recording daily changes that could indicate she is close to giving birth. They are looking for changes in her shape and size, swelling around her teats to indicate milk production, increase in veins around her tummy (these help in milk production too), as well as changes in her hind end and vulva. Her behaviour will start to change as well! Just like in the wild, Tori will distance herself from Rey and Lori-Ann to give birth on her own. Currently, her teats have shown no chan