North American Asian Elephant Population 2021

NOVAElephantEnthusiast said:
Looks like Fort Worth has a male calf named "Brazos" on the ground. Just announced per their Facebook and IG posts. Cant wait to find out who the new mom is!
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Oh my god this is amazing news. I was hoping for little girl but after 8 year's Fort Worth finally has a calf and hopefully many more to come. My bet on the father is Romeo as he is a proven bull. Also since Romeo is the son of Pete that makes him very valuable not to mention Bluebonnet that makes their son one of the most genetically valuable elephants in the population

This year is one of the best for captive asian elephant breeding with 3.4 calves born this year.
 
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NOVAElephantEnthusiast said:
https://www.federalregister.gov/doc...DNKfWRT7LtmSx6tSYqjXrtEhveFEoLSs07vSQnmqDovRQ

And I guess this confirms it.


Applicant: Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, Washington, DC; Permit No. PER0017129
The applicant requests a permit to import two female captive-bred Asian elephants ( Elephas maximus ) from the Rotterdam Zoo, Rotterdam, Netherlands, for the purpose of enhancing the propagation or survival of the species. This notification is for a single import.
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Surprise. Not
 
Animals R AMAZING! said:
I contacted the zoo about this and turns out EleWiki was correct, Bluebonnet did conceive naturally! So glad to hear she can breed naturally now.
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This is great news hopefully we will see calves every three to four years from both Bluebonnet and her sister Belle
 
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Polar bear fan said:
If we were talking about African elephants the no. But for Asian elephants they do very well unless there are are birth defects.
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I don't know much about the African elephant population in the United States. I think watching seasons of "Secret Life of the Zoo" (the one about Chester) has me convinced that all Asian elephant calves die. :eek:
 
EsserWarrior said:
I don't know much about the African elephant population in the United States. I think watching seasons of "Secret Life of the Zoo" (the one about Chester) has me convinced that all Asian elephant calves die. :eek:
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Not all elephant calves die Emmen, Cologne, Dublin, Pairi Daiza, Hannover, St.louis, African Lion Safari, and Houston, all have large successful breeding herds with no claves dying of EEHV in recent years, Dublin, Cologne, Emmen and Hannover have lost 0 calves to EEHV, St.louis and Pairi Daiza have had calves have EEHV but have survived, African Lion Safari, Okc have only had one calf die to EEHV, Houston as well used to have calves have EEHV and some calves did pass to the virus, but their most recent calves have not died. And Chester has had success with Indali as she is the first calf to survive from EEHV.
 
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Mr.Ivory said:
Not all elephant calves die Emmen, Cologne, Dublin, Pairi Daiza, Hannover, St.louis, African Lion Safari, and Houston, all have large successful breeding herds with no claves dying of EEHV in recent years, Dublin, Cologne, Emmen and Hannover have lost 0 calves to EEHV, St.louis and Pairi Daiza have had calves have EEHV but have survived, African Lion Safari, Okc have only had one calf die to EEHV, Houston as well used to have calves have EEHV and some calves did pass to the virus, but their most recent calves have not died. And Chester has had success with Indali as she is the first calf to survive from EEHV.
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That is fantastic news! Are there any updated North American and European lists that I could check out?
 
EsserWarrior said:
I don't know much about the African elephant populations in the United States
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It’s not doing very well sadly. It has much more potential than the Asian population with tons of wildborn breeding cows but very few have bred. The Asian population is slowly starting to do better in terms of breeding and zoos are getting better at treating calves with EEHV. On the bright side, most African calves survive to adulthood as EEHV isn’t as big of an issue as with Asians. However, there have been a number of cases and even deaths of African calves from EEHV in the very recent past. Long story short, the Asian SSP is slowly improving while the African SSP seems to have gotten worse despite having a bunch more more breeding individuals from the wild.
 
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