Koalas, wombats coming up
Australia will send 11 types of animal to Thailand in return for eight elephants sent to zoos in Sydney and Melbourne, Zoological Park Organisation director Sophon Damnui said yesterday.
The Australian animals include koalas, dingoes, red, grey and dwarf kangaroos, ringtail and brushtail possums, emus, parrots, feathertail gliders and wombats. The animals will arrive in Thailand this month.Two koalas and two wombats would be kept at Suan Dusit Zoo in Bangkok while the other 54 animals would go to the Night Safari in Chiang Mai, he said. Sophon said Thailand was the fourth country in the world to which Australia had agreed to give koalas. He said he believed the ongoing campaign by animal rights protesters against the delivery of the eight elephants to Australia would cease when the Australian animals arrived in Thailand. The Nation
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