The attentions received in Ogarenda facilitated the excellent development of this specimen, after to have been recovered of hands of illegal dealers by officials of the Office of the Environment.
The Embassy of the United States donated a cage especially conditioned to facilitate the procreation and the Department of Genetics of the Faculty of Veterinary of the University Complutense of Madrid, determined its sex through an analysis of DNA.
Its keepers expect that people of good will that have a similar specimen can approach Ogarenda to enable that Coco get a family, and of that way help to the conservation of its species in extinction danger.
Conserving to its species is the objective of the Zoo of Asunción. Couple for an unique specimen of blue macaw is sought.
THE BOYFRIEND
Coco has approximately 9 years old; it is entirely cobalt blue with a fine yellow aureole around the eyes and behind the lower peak. Although this animal can live to 70 years, today it is on the way to extinction by the destruction of his habitat and the indiscriminate commerce of which they are object by his magnificent beauty. This type of Macaw lives in the North end of the regions Eastern and Western of Paraguay and it feeds of fruits and seeds.
CLASS: Aves ORDER: Psittaciformes FAMILY: Psittacidae KIND: Anodorhynchus SPECIES:Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus COMMON NAME: Gua'a hovy o papagayo azul
IN EXTINCTION DANGER
The Appendix 1 of CITIES, establishes that the species CANNOT BE COMMERCIALIZED
and that it'sfound protected by the Resolution DPNVS N 701 of the Republic of Paraguay .
Ogarenda thanks to Teresa Dominguez, journalist of Ultima Hora, by the note published in that important middle
