Whatever happened to the baby olms?

You might possibly remember, if you read this blog assiduously (nobody does) that I had an article or two about the rare hatching of olms in Slovenia -  olms being pink blind cave salamanders that are called "baby dragons" and which are quite rare, and therefore quite endangered, in this world of human dominance over nature.

Fully grown olm

Here are my two articles:

The world needs more olms (pre-hatching)

First new olm

Inspired by something that I now have forgotten -- it happens -- I suddenly found myself wondering what had happened to the baby olms, considering that the articles stated and repeated that baby olms are vulnerable.  So I searched, found a couple of update articles a few months after the hatching, but finally found this:

How Slovenia is helping its ‘baby dragons’  (dated August 2017)

So this is how they were doing back in August:

“We now have 21 baby olms flourishing in our trays,” said Primoz Gnezda, a biologist working in Postojna Cave. “For the first time we have witnessed the hatching of proteus larvae – and, after one year, they are all healthy. And that gives us hope we can save our olms for the future.”

Yay!

The article goes into more detail, so I will leave it for you, dear reader, to find out more if you wish to do so.  But it's good to know that the olms are doing well.