The 30-year-old elephant’s care team tracks her endocrine system to determine the baby’s arrival. Once her progesterone levels dip, it could be a mere two weeks before the calf arrives — but ...
“She’s just cute always,” lead zookeeper Shelby Maerling said this time. Elephant calf Meru was born at Reid Park Zoo, 3400 E. Zoo Court, to African elephant Semba on March 8. She joins ...
At birth a calf can be 1m (3ft) and weigh 90kg (200lbs). Almost immediately after birth a baby elephant must master life on four legs, but it takes much longer for its 5th limb to reach its full ...
They got a video of the elephant calf kicking its mother in the side. “We just witnessed something truly incredible – Talia’s little one moving!” the zoo posted on Facebook. “This ...
The Sunday Times learns the baby elephant was either from Habarana or the upper Udawalawe area and there were moves to register it as a calf born to a captive elephant, used for elephant safaris in ...