Striped couscous Baranka settled in the Moscow Zoo

The Moscow Zoo has a new resident, a striped couscous named Baranka, which can now be seen in the exhibition enclosure. This was announced on Thursday, April 16, by the Moscow Department of Culture.

It is noted that the animal arrived at the zoo last fall and was quarantined for several months, undergoing adaptation. In April, couscous was transferred to the aviary of the Night World pavilion, where visitors can see it.

Baranka lives with pygmy flying marsupials and a bristle-tailed kangaroo named Baguette. 360.ru . Conditions have been created for animals that are as close as possible to their natural environment, and special lighting allows them to be observed in the "night" mode.

Svetlana Akulova, General Director of the Moscow Zoo, noted that the Baranka has successfully adapted, has a calm character and gets along well with its neighbors, RT clarifies. According to her, this format of the mixed aviary allows us to show how different species of marsupials can coexist, the Moscow City News Agency reports.

The agency clarified that couscous feeds on fruits and insects, and its weight is about 320 g, Moscow 24 notes. This marsupial lives in the rainforests of Australia and Oceania, is nocturnal and spends most of its time in trees.

In early April, Humboldt penguin chicks were born at the Moscow Zoo. The chicks began to be born in early January with an interval of several days.