Usually, by the end of summer, younglings born in the spring at the zoo have grown up, but this year a miracle happened in the family of Siberian ibex (Capra sibirica). Kortyk and Serna had a calf on August 27. The zoo staff did not expect such a late offspring. This is the first time such an incident happened in Mykolaiv Zoo.

The calf was born healthy, it is active and nimbly runs after its mother. He was given the name Rubik. In the family, Rubik is treated cautiously, no one insults him, but on the contrary, they take care and protect him. Our little one lives with his family in the enclosure for keeping mountain ungulates "Goats Hill".

The "Goats Hill" enclosure was built on the new territory in the 1970s. Not every modern zoo can boast of an enclosure for mountain ungulates that would be so close to natural conditions. Real mountains, boulders, rocks, stone ledges – all this allows the animals to move actively and feel as if they were in the wild!