Miller Park Zoo San Clemente goat gives birth

Posted on April 12, 2016
Baby Goats
The baby goats can be viewed in the Children’s Zoo area. (Photo courtesy Miller Park Zoo)

By Adam Studzinski

BLOOMINGTON – A rare breed of goat at the Miller Park Zoo is the latest animal to give birth at the facility.

One of the zoo’s San Clemente Goats recently gave birth two kids – one male and one female.

The births are significant, not only because they are a critically rare breed, but because the zoo traded breeding males with a ranch in Texas to acquire their father. The father is from the rarest bloodline found in San Clemente Island Goats.

The goats are listed as a critically endangered heritage breed. Their global population is around 600.

Adam Studzinski can be reached at [email protected].

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