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Say hello to Georgie , the vicuña , the first fauna born at the Belfast Zoo this year .
Vicuñas are the smallest member of the camel folk and originate from the mountainous region of Argentina , Bolivia , Chile and Peru .
(1) Belfast Zoo is celebrating the first birth of 2012, with the arrival of Georgie, the vicu
Vicuñas were once hunted to the brink of defunctness , for their woollen and marrow . But national parks and trade restrictions put in topographic point in the sixties help population of the beast recover .
menagerie have also play a bridge player in re - establishing the species through multiply programs . It was through such a program that Georgie fall along on Feb. 6 . [ See the whole vicuña family . ]
" The vicuña class live mighty at the top of the Belfast Zoo site and visitor can now chat Georgie and her parents , Douglas and Colonia , in their hilltop enclosure , " said zoological garden manager Mark Challis . " Their Cave Hill place is sodding , as vicuña are particularly adapted to survive in rocky and cragged terrains . "
(1) Belfast Zoo is celebrating the first birth of 2012, with the arrival of Georgie, the vicu
