New panda baby for Vienna Zoo

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This is the moment a doting panda mum came eye to eye with her minutes-old cub for the first time after giving birth in an Austrian zoo. Mum Yang Yang gave birth naturally to the four inch long (10 cms) cub at Vienna’s Schoenbrunn Zoo, a rarity in panda pregnancies. Zoo director Dagmar Schratter said: […]

Birth balance negative once again

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The birth balance of 2012 has been negative for the first time in three years. This was due to an increase in deaths. Another trend is that women give birth to their first child when they are older. Even though more children were born last year, there was a negative balance of 484 for the […]

Lemur baby at Schönbrunn Zoo

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The Lemurs made famous in the movie “Madagascar” have become one of the most popular attractions at Vienna’s Schönbrunn Zoo. Recently, a baby Lemur was born there which has further increased the popularity of the animals among visitors. The female Lemur Samba gave birth on the 25th of May, and the gender of the baby […]

Anteater born at Schönbrunn Zoo

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Last NovemberSchönbrunn Zoo celebrated the offspring of the adult anteaters, and now visitors of the zoo can visit the baby anteater. The anteater female Ilse gave birth after 190 days of pregnancy to the baby anteater named “Mocoa” by the zoo caretakers on Sunday the 22nd of April. “Ilse is 16 years old and she […]

UN highlights food allocation difficulties

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An expert on population developments has dismissed fears that there is too little food for everyone as the number of people living on this planet is soaring. The United Nations (UN) said that the seventh million human was born last Monday. The head of the organisation’s population division, Gerhard Heilig, said his department expected the […]

Out of wedlock birth rate up

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More than four in 10 babies were born out of wedlock last year, figures presented today (Thurs) reveal.Austrian statistic authority Statistik Austria announced that 40.1 per cent of all babies born in 2010 were born out of wedlock, up slightly from 39.2 per cent in the previous year.Carinthia registered the highest share of illegitimate births […]

Fritzl house ‘will be razed next spring’

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The former residence of incest monster Josef Fritzl will be torn down in spring 2011, it has been claimed.Newspapers report today (Tues) that Amstetten City Hall has granted liquidator Walter Anzböck’s request to have the house in 40 Ybbs Street demolished within the next few months. Anzböck initially planned to sell the property to financially […]

First quadruplet leaves clinic

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One of a set of female quadruplets born at an Upper Austrian hospital has been discharged, doctors said today (Tues).Martin Wald of the Klinikum Wels announced the girl, who now weighs 3.1 kilograms, was allowed to join her mother at home last week. The woman, who underwent hormone treatment to become pregnant, gave birth to […]

Monovular triplets born in Klagenfurt

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A Carinthian woman has given birth to monovular triplets, it has emerged.Doctors at the Klinikum Klagenfurt hospital said today (Weds) the overjoyed mum and her girls were doing fine after last Friday’s birth. They stressed that the chances of give birth to single egg triplets was one in 200 million.A spokesman for the clinic said […]

Woman kidnaps baby as mum tries on clothes

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A woman from Salzburg was reunited with her baby five hours after the girl was kidnapped at a shopping centre.Nina Zwilling was in an H&M store in Salzburg’s Europark mall when she noticed that baby Nora was no longer in her cradle yesterday morning (Weds).The mother-of-three – who was also accompanied by her two-year-old boy […]