bull elephant at SDWAP

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  Arizona Docent

• 2 Mar 2009

Check out those tusks! All asian elephants, including this male, are moving from the Wild Animal Park to the Zoo for the new Elephant Odyssey opening this summer (2009). Wild Animal Park will use the asian space to expand their african elephant herd, which has around 6 or 7 calves right now and will need the space.

 

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  dragon(ele)nerd

• 2 Mar 2009

neat, Ranchipur has awesome tusks!

 

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  Meaghan Edwards

• 2 Mar 2009

He looks appropriately prehistoric Stick some fur on him and he'd look like a mammoth.

 

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  zooman

• 2 Mar 2009

Would the tusks get that big in the wild?

 

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  Ituri

• 2 Mar 2009

Meaghan Edwards said:

He looks appropriately prehistoric Stick some fur on him and he'd look like a mammoth.

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Good, because he'll soon be playing the roll of one.

 

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  dragon(ele)nerd

• 2 Mar 2009

zooman said:

Would the tusks get that big in the wild?

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It's possible, though in the wild I've read bulls tend to drop ivory here and there as well as their tusks continously breaking off from fighting.

 

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  zooman

• 2 Mar 2009

Thats what l would have thought. So its actually not natural....

Now surely you are off to school

 

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  kiang

• 2 Mar 2009

Is there much shading in the current paddock, and is there provision for shading in the new elephant odyssey at the zoo?

 

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  BlackRhino

• 2 Mar 2009

I just visited and the current paddock has tons of shading for the massive pachyderms. I know from the plans Elephant Odyssey will too. I am sure it will be a great exhibit!

 

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  dragon(ele)nerd

• 3 Mar 2009

and with a bull like Ranchipur should be an amazing exhibit.