21st December 2007
Lomu the orphaned spotted hyena
Recently a couple of hunters managed to rescue two baby hyenas from the uterus of their dead mother. This is quite an unbelievable story
A couple of hunters were hunting in a local hunting concession in Zimbabwe. Whilst hunting their quota for the day, they managed to shoot a hyena, on coming up to inspect their dead trophy they noticed that the stomach was moving and they promptly cut open the mother, and suprisingly out popped two lovely baby hyenas. Over the next two days the babies where reared using a rubber surgical glove as a make shift teat until the hunters could get back to civalisation. It was then that the two babies were brought into Chipangali to be handreared. This is where Nicky Wilson shows a special intest and flare in rearing baby animals. The two pups where named Lomu meaning mouth in the local Ndebele language and Chewy. Unfortunately little Chewy has died from a bacterial infection quite possibly associated with the way in which they where brought into the world. Currently Lomu is been fed every 4 hours and drinks 260 ml of milk she/he is a lovely little animal with an unbelievable amount of character. It is very difficult to tell if a spotted hyena is male or female until they are at least 6 months old as both males and females have external male appearances down below. We will keep you undated as to Lomus' progress over the next couple of months. If you would like to sponsor Lomu please take a look under Hyena category on the main adoption page.
Above: lomu stretching after his morning feed
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