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Baby male Asian Elephant Jubilee, the first successful elephant birth in the UK. He is aged 4 days.

Motty the only known African x Asian Elephant calf. The only photo I could get of this unique specimen. He was four days old.

Malini arrived at the Zoo in August 1961 and this photo was probably taken around that time... She was a gift from the Indian Government... She was brought over as a companion to Jamuna who died less than three years later... This photo was sourced from the book: A Tiger by the Tail by Derek...

The enclosure for malayan tapirs in Copenhagen Zoo. It's about twice the size of what you can see on this photo, and holds 1.1 tapirs + offspring. Though it's not a huge enclosure, I like it very much. It's nicely planted and decorated. Visitors and animals are seperated by low fences and a dry...

Copenhagen Zoo's famous breeding bull, Chieng Mai. This old boy is currently 47 years old, and still breeding. His most famous children are Irma and Chang. Irma is the matriarch in Rotterdam Zoo, and many will remember Chang as Chester's old breeding male. This is a pictures of him in the old...

An Asian elephant swimming in the moat of Cologne Zoo's Elephant Park. The water is deep enough for the elephants to be complety submerged.

Asian elephants in Cologne Zoo's state-of-the-art Elephant Park.

The enormous Elephant House in Cologne Zoo houses the zoo's herd of Asian elephants.

The Polar Park was a zoo that was situated 15 miles outside of Edmonton, Alberta in western Canada. It opened on August 1st, 1959, and I visited there many times when I was a child. When I was 10 years old, in 1986, I left Edmonton and never revisited the zoo. Either in the late eighties or...

Asian Elephants at Whipsnade

An elephant at Whipsnade taken from the train.

African Elephants at West Midlands Safari Park

African Elephants at West Midlands Safari Park

African Elephant at West Midlands Safari Park The 4 elephants came over to the park as orphans from Africa.

Asian Elephants at Terra Natura, Benidorm

Elephants at Terra Natura, Benidorm

The old Elephant and Rhino house at London Zoo. It now contains Bearded Pigs, Camels and Pygmy Hippos.

Two asian elephants at Chester Zoo

Indra is a former circus elephant, recently confiscated by German authorities and brought to Burgers' Zoo together with her friend Rekka. Indra is born in 1966 in the wild, and was bought by the circus in 1968.