Melbourne Zoo Kulab's Calf

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Excellent news! Several days of critical expentancy are now due for mother-calf. I do hope they respect the whole bonding process before letting the media and the general public in on him and her.

Fingers crossed this big calf will develop into a great bull.

This does show the need - more than ever - to now start planning for an all bull group at a major ZAA zoo facility in the future. Any likely candidates? :confused:
 
This does show the need - more than ever - to now start planning for an all bull group at a major ZAA zoo facility in the future. Any likely candidates? :confused:[/QUOTE]

If this happens in the future I feel the Western Plains zoo would be a front runner here
 
This birth helps establishes Bong Sus male line which is good. But we need more females.
 
jay said:
This birth helps establishes Bong Sus male line which is good. But we need more females.
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IMO aside from more female calves ...., you do require 2 more adult breeding age bulls (proven or unproven). In Europe we seriously have some Burmese born male bulls AND socially apt available for immediate transfer .... :)
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
IMO aside from more female calves ...., you do require 2 more adult breeding age bulls (proven or unproven). In Europe we seriously have some Burmese born male bulls AND socially apt available for immediate transfer .... :)
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YES PLEASE :D

I would hope some day maybe one of Radza's sons from Emmen zoo could be tranfered down under, another bloodline from a great bull :cool:
 
wow! huge calf!

this is great news, I actually don't really mind that it is a male, Melbourne's exhibit isn't small however I don't believe it is large enough to happily support 7 adult elephants.

Hopefully he'll go on display during the school holidays!
 
It would be good if more and larger facilities are planned for the ever increasing Aussie elephant population or maybe after this run of births it will come to a great halt.Interested to hear those closer to the frontline.Congrats to Melbourne.Cheers ay.
 
It appears the new calf made it's public debut today, the ABC press report said he is doing very well and running around at times. good news
 
Axl said:
Thanks for the link, it's great the amount of media coverage this birth is getting. I know more about the elephants at Taronga but decided to start a thread for Kulab who was also due soon.

I previously thought she wasn't due for another month or so and was amazed to disover the press release from yesterday saying she is due any day. It's very exciting and it'll be great for Mali.

I can see Kulab having a boy but that is purely a feeling I have and it could be totally wrong! It would be fantastic to have another girl and great for the herd in the future. :D
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Congratulations to everyone at Melbourne Zoo and of course Bong Su and Kulab. It's great to have a healthy baby. It sounds as if the labour didn't go as smoothly as it did for Dokkoon but at least there was an expert medical team on hand to assist mother and calf.

That's an amazing weight, especially for such as young mother. It will be great to see this calf develop into a healthy adult bull over the coming years.

Thanks to everyone at zoochat for providing updates on the calf. I don't have the oppotunity to post at weekends so it's great we have a community that are able to keep us updated. :D

PS. I have a similar feeling that Taronga Zoo's Pak Boon is going to have a female calf. Hopefully I'm right about her too! :)
 
Axl said:
That's an amazing weight, especially for such as young mother.
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It's actually the teenage mothers that usually deliver the really large calves, I read on the houston zoo website when Shanti was preganant with Mac ( she was 14 at the time) they want to feed her a special diet, as she too is a growing animal they don't want the calf to grow to large. Mac came out large anyway at 175kgs!!!

UrMumzAGoat said:
Dont jinx it, or the Taronga Zoo Male Elephant Curse may live on!:eek:
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You should know about this zoo in Holland, Emmen, they have had 24 births (including miscarriages) of that 20 males and 4 females.
 
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