BREC's Baton Rouge Zoo has welcomed its newest addition, a female bongo calf.
The bongo, the largest of the African antelopes, is chestnut brown with 10 to 15 thin, white stripes that wrap vertically around her short, glossy coat.
The calf's could grow to be more than 3 feet long.
The calf was born at the zoo Nov. 29, and her mother and father are currently on exhibit at the zoo, "and doing well," a BREC press release says.
The bongo, a species with a declining population, is the third born at the zoo.
The calf's mother was brought to the Baton Rouge Zoo last spring as part of an Association of Zoos and Aquariums Species Survival Plan breeding recommendation.
The bongo is threatened by both hunting and habitat loss, the release says. Although bongos still have a relatively wide distribution in Central Africa, populations are becoming more and more isolated. Bongos have been listed a "near threatened" species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Red List.
The goal of the program that brought bongos to Baton Rouge is to maintain a healthy population among endangered animals that is "genetically diverse and demographically stable.