The information was advised at the beginning of the year, and considering elephant pregnancies can be determined at three or so months earliest, it rules out a few of those options.
Asha and Rozie both lost calves late 2024. Rozie in December, so we can rule her out. Asha in July, but unless she fell pregnant straight after (unlikely as they'd want to give her time to recover), we can probably rule her out too. Sabu arrived in June last year. I don't know how quickly he was introduced to the girls, but it's probably unlikely they're the females too due to the timeframe involved.
I considered Tess at Houston, but it's now been over four years since she last calved, and I would have thought she would have calved sooner had they intended to breed her straight after Teddy again. She's a possibility still. As is Joy. However Chuck arrived in May of last year, so similar to the Cincy girls, it's also a tight squeeze timeframe wise for her to be introduced and then get pregnant for it to be insider knowledge.
Saint Louis's girls are 50/50. I imagine they'll wait for Sam to get on site before breeding with Priya, and I would've thought Maliha would've calved already had the intention been to use AI. Perhaps she was AI'd without success, or she's due very soon. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
The two Smithsonian girls are sure bets for me. It makes sense, considering the time they've been in Washington. And for the other, it's a weigh up between Mali at Syracuse and Belle at Fort Worth who both are also very good chances; being around three years since both last calved.
