A six-month-old baby wombat named Apari has become a visitor sensation at a German zoo, a spokesman for the Duisburg animal park says.
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Apari took his first steps outside of his mother's pouch just over a week ago, and visitors have been flocking to see the tiny marsupial ever since, the spokesman said on Wednesday.
Apari and his mother are set to move to a new enclosure in around two weeks, he added.
It is the first wombat baby to live in Duisburg zoo in nearly four decades.
The zoo's spokesman said that Apari is an indigenous Australian name meaning "father" and that the wombat was named in honour of his father, who died in the zoo in December at the age of 20.
Australian Associated Press