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First Saddle-Billed Stork Chick Hatched at Disney's Animal Kingdom


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From the Disney Parks Blog...

We’ve had some exciting news on the baby front over the past couple of weeks at Disney’s Animal Kingdom, with a first chick for a pair of Saddle-Billed storks, and a new addition to our White-Cheeked Gibbon family.

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Not only is the Saddle-Billed Stork chick a first for these parents, but it is a first for Disney’s Animal Kingdom. The pair has been together since 1998, the year Disney’s Animal Kingdom opened, and they have gradually improved the skills needed to be parents, including courtship and nesting.The Saddle-Billed Stork is an exceptionally tall and spectacular-looking stork, with a yellow saddle-shaped shield on its bill that gives the bird its name. Their native habitat is tropical Africa, where they eat mainly fish. Guests can see the nest and chick in the Ituri Forest area of the Kilimanjaro Safaris.

http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2013/03/wildlife-wednesdays-saddle-billed-stork-has-first-chick-white-cheeked-gibbon-expands-family-with-new-addition-at-disneys-animal-kingdom/

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....The pair has been together since 1998, the year Disney’s Animal Kingdom opened, and they have gradually improved the skills needed to be parents, including courtship and nesting...

So these birds took 15 years to develop their parenting skills before actually having kids? Maybe humans can learn something from these guys. Cause there are a WHOLE LOT of people jumping into parenthood without so much as even knowing the other person's name.

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