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This undated footage shows the six new black-tailed prairie dog young that were born at the world's oldest zoo - the Schoenbrunn Zoo - in the city of Vienna, Austria, in June 2023. This footage also shows Koala bears at the Tiergarten Schonbrunn in Vienna, Austria on Thursday, 29th September 2022. The footage shows near threatened European pond turtles at the Danube-Auen National Park, Austria, which delivered 1,000 hatchlings to the joy of the Schoenbrunn Zoo, in the city of Vienna, Austria. Zoo chiefs in Austria have banned members of the public from naming adorable newborns because they think it trivialises the fight for endangered species. Bosses at Scheonbrunn Zoo in Vienna used to filter tens of thousands of name ideas from around the world every time a new cub or calf was announced. Now po-faced managers have told animal fans to keep their suggestions to themselves from this month on. Despite the strong public enthusiasm for animal naming, they claim it detracts from the zoo's main purpose of saving species from extinction. In the past, some suggestions have included a male seal called Comandante, a panda cub named Yang Yang and a giraffe calf called Amari. Officials say that from this month (July) only keepers will name new zoo offspring but they will not announce them to the public. Zoo bosses believe that by giving zoo creatures human names people will ignore their plight in the wild. [NOTE: partially no sound, speech in German language]