Orlando Science Center is now home to a baby red-rumped agouti, an animal recently born inside the “Life” exhibit at the Loch Haven Park museum.

The late July arrival was both a surprise and part of a bigger plan, said Shannon Zimmerman, curator of conservation and welfare. The addition is in conjunction with a Species Survival Plan developed by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums . Already at Orlando Science Center were Stimpy, a male agouti moved from San Francisco, and Brooke, a female brought in from North Florida.

“They are both animals that were recommended to us to come together, to breed and, lo and behold, out of all of the animals within that SSP, these two actually were successful in it,” Zimmerman said. It was the first agouti to be born within the plan since 2020,

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