How to save a little zebra from death: a recipe from Kenya

Employees of the Kenyan Tsavo National Park rescued a zebra cub whose mother was bullied by lions. But now, in order to leave the baby, you have to go to numerous tricks.

This baby zebra named Diria was only a few days old when the lions attacked her and her mother. Diria would have died like her, if not for a lucky chance. Fleeing from predators, zebras came running to the eastern edge of the Tsavo National Park, where local shepherds grazed a herd of goats. When the lions caught the mother, Diria ran into the center of the herd, hiding among the goats. The shepherds managed to drive away the lions, after which they took the zebra cub to the servants of the national park.

The baby zebra was only a few days old, and it was clear that, left an orphan, he would not survive. Park attendants took the baby to a rehabilitation center and began to take care of him. It is not easy to grow a zebra in captivity, but the national park hopes that Diria will grow up and be able to return to the wild.

For a month, employees of the national park have been feeding the cub with milk and caring for him around the clock. It was they who gave him the name Diria. When approaching a zebra cub, they always wear an unusual protective suit covered with stripes that exactly match the pattern on the zebra skin. As they say in the national park, it is necessary that the zebra cub is not afraid of the servants and perceives them as his own mother.

When a female gives birth to a cub, she leaves the herd and until the baby is able to live independently, they are left alone together."

According to experts from the national park, the special suit helped them save many orphaned or injured zebras, subsequently releasing them into the wild. When employees come to him in their usual costume, Diria does not get too attached to any of them, and his attachment to his mother develops exactly as nature intended: when he grows up, he will be ready to leave her.

According to the staff of the National Park, Diria feels well, eats milk with an appetite and happily allows the attendants to stroke and scratch herself. For today, Tsavo has no doubt that the future fate of the baby will be successful.