Videos of the delivery — which was monitored via remote cameras to give Zari privacy — can be found on the zoo’s social media accounts.
Zari, a 4-year-old lioness at the Lincoln Park Zoo, gave birth to three cubs on the evening of Jan. 9, 2023.
At 5:02 p.m., the first cub arrived. The second cub made its way into the world at 8:37 p.m. Shortly before 10 p.m., the last cub was born. All the while, their mother behaved like “a rock star,” according to zoo staff.She “immediately attended to the cubs, started grooming them, and then, within hours of their birth, she started nursing them and feeding them,” said the zoo’s curator of mammals and behavioral husbandry Mike Murray.
Female lions in the wild isolate to give birth, so Zari was allowed to do the same, according to the zoo. To continue giving the lion and her cubs privacy, the zoo announced the animals will remain behind the scenes for several weeks. The sex of the cubs is unknown. This is Zari’s second pregnancy, according to the zoo. On March 15, 2022, she had her first male cub, Pilipili, with her mate, Jabari. Both pregnancies are part of the African Lions Species Survival Plan, a population management effort across accredited zoos within the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
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