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Baby Jaguar Gets Unique Name

Tuesday, October 23, 2007 6:41:15 AM
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Jaguar Born In Melbourne Zoo

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For almost four months a baby jaguar has gone by the name Baby, but on Monday she finally received a name.

Brevard Zoo officials held an online contest to name the baby jaguar and the winning name was Nindiri.

"In Nicaragua, there's a very large active volcano called Masaya, which is where the mother got her name. There are several eruptive cones within that volcano and one of them was Nindiri, so Nindiri is part of Masaya," said April Winters, a zookeeper.

"There's just not that many in the zoos. There's only about 100, and there's only 15 breeding pairs out of the 100. This birth is only the second birth so far this year," Winters said.

You can see Nindiri at the Brevard Zoo.

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