Fuku came to Satsukiyama Zoo in Osaka’s Ikeda city from Launceston, a city in northern Tasmania, in 2007 as the two cities have established a sister city relationship.
“Konkatsu,” or marriage hunting, has become a buzzword in Japan at a time when birth rates and the number of people tying the knot have been falling. But humans aren’t the only ones having a hard time finding partners.
A zoo in western Japan’s Osaka Prefecture says it is struggling to find a bride for one of its wombats, the country’s only breeding-age specimen of the Australian native animal.