Back on May 30, bonobo Elema at the Milwaukee County Zoo gave birth to a baby boy that was later named Remi. but that was hardly the only baby born recently at the Zoo.
You can read more about Remi in this post from early July.
“We have a new cow calf at the Family Farm. Her name is Mabel and she is quite cute,” Zoo Communications Director Megan O’Shea tells me. “We also have some baby macaques on macaque island.”
Plus, there was also a camel calf born this past spring.
Mabel is an Ayrshire heifer that lives in the Northwestern Mutual Family Farm. She was born on July 28 to mother Phoebe.
According to a zoo blog post, “When a calf is born on the farm, the milking process is started right away to help ensure the survival of the calf and health of the mother, similar to how other dairy farms are run.”
Also in late July, the zoo reported on its blog that they’d named the two macaque males that had been born in June.
“Japanese macaque Usagi, age 12, gave birth behind the scenes on June 8 to the newest member of the troop,” the blog noted. “Usagi brought her baby outside and onto Macaque Island a few hours later. The father is Kota, age 10, and this baby is the second offspring for Usagi and the eleventh member of the macaque troop.
The baby was named Chihiro, which means “thousand fathoms” or “thousand fields” in Japanese.
Then, about a week later, on June 14, 12-year-old Rikka gave birth to the 12th member of the troop and her fourth offspring.
That baby was named Kinji, in honor or anthropologist Imanishi Kinji, who founded Kyoto University’s Primate Research Institute and the journal “Primates.”
Earlier in the year, on April 20, Bactrian camel, A.J. (Addie-Jean) gave birth to a boy in the public habitat. The calf was named Baatar, which means “hero” in Mongolian.
Find the Milwaukee County Zoo blog here.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press. A fifth collects Urban Spelunking articles about breweries and maltsters.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has been heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
