the habitat of The Malagasy spider tortoise is threatened. In Hanover, a newly hatched specimen provides, therefore, with great pleasure.

Who is cuter? The little turtle makes in the Zoo the children happy. And adults photo: wildlife experience Hannover

is 10 grams, about as big as a gummy bear and 15. February hatched: the recent Malagasy turtle Spiders in the Zoo of Hannover.

This is a small Sensation. For months, the three-inch-high sign was supervised krötenei lovingly of the animal keepers*inside. Because until a Malagasy spider tortoise slips, a delay of at least 300 days of the breeding season. In addition, each female lays only one Egg in a year – in contrast to other turtle species, the burying per clutch number of eggs in the Sand.

you can when it comes to the world, everything needs a Malagasy spider tortoise to Survive. For example, on their four feet to run and search for food to go.

she is a total foodie: she likes herbs, wild, young fruits and flowers. Because it looks in the Hanover Terrarium with wild herbs poor, collect the animal keepers*inside every Morning on the way to work, ribwort plantain and dandelion. The like your.

If you don't walk through the Zoo of Hanover, she was the favorite in the southwest of Madagascar. In Hanover, it is in your green. Much prefer to you like a thorn shrubs and dry forests. During dry periods, the Malagasy spider buries itself turtle in the Sand and wait there for up to seven months to the next rainy season, without food and water supply. The 12 inches of large animal stores in its Interior sufficient water to come over the rounds.

Nevertheless, the survivor is in danger of extinction and is on the Red list of world conservation Union. Your greatest enemy: the man. In addition to the illegal animal trade, the shrink makes your to create a habitat. Anyway, your home is situated on a 50 kilometre narrow stretch of coast in the southwest of the East African island. In the last few years, the Savannah gives way to oil palms, however, the landscape, banana and Soybean plantations. Your rather my reproductive behaviour does the Rest.

the greater is the joy in the Zoo of Hannover, as a veterinary nurse Sylvia (her last name would she have not published), the young in the Morning of the 15th. February in the incubator is born. "If you have such a rare species, I can really very and the grapevine ensures that is equal to the whole Zoo knows," says spokesperson Yvonne delighted Riedelt, "this is the madness that such a tiny animal will hatch from the Egg and immediately can loskrabbeln."

Until your tank is fully formed, it is allowed to remain the little turtle is still in the office, the zoo Keeper*on the inside. There, you will not be fed, but also bathed regularly.

A name for the young animal has not yet. The only chosen, if the sex of the turtle is visible. And that can take up to five years.