Zurich – The 19-year-old Asian elephant at Zurich Zolo was born this weekend on a man’s calf whose name, starting from the letter Z, will be published this week.
The camera for monitoring light sensitive childbirth was taken over by birth before dawn on Saturday and baby’s earliest, traction steps inside the Zoov Park Kaeng Krachan. It is now a home of the hexagon: four females, including Mother Farha; Bull Elephant and Father Thai; And a new calf.
The director of the Severin Dressen’s zoo said that the staff was happy, but “still careful” about birth.
“The first weeks of the calf life are always the most beautiful – even if the calf currently appears healthy and Fit,” he said in the statement.
Asian elephant or Elephas Maximus, a critical species with about 50,000 estimated in the wild, and their numbers decline, said the zoo. The zoo grows elephants as part of the effort to preserve within the European vulnerable program species, Dreessen said.
The Zoolovci officer made his best to keep Farh’s mother three – far from the other woman named Panang, who had a little previous experience with young animals, and the separation will continue for the next days.
Such were born relatively rare in zoos compared to those of other species due to an almost two-year-old period from the elephant, ZOO officials said.
The spokesman for the Zoo Zoo said that the name of the new calf will be published after the staff meeting on Wednesday, but 2025. is “Z” years, so Munikar will start with that letter.
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2025-04-20 16:18:00