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I was at Artis today for the first time in a few years. I noticed that the baby/young elephant has an injured trunk. I haven’t seen anything about it here and a google search brought up news about an operation to fix it but I don’t know how it was injured, does anyone know?
Posted on EleWiki In October 2019 Sanuk was injured in the trunk, according to the veterinarian, this is a very complex body part of the elephant. "As a vet at Artis, of course, I have a lot of sewing experience, but an elephant's trunk is so complex that we turned to Frank Bloemers. As an accident surgeon, he has experience with the most complex suture methods and so we were able to care for the calf in the best possible way."> [Google translates.]
https://elefanten.fandom.com/wiki/Sanuk
 
Yesterday evening 4 May at 21.09 a male Asian elephant was born at Artis. Mother and calf are doing well.

This is the fifth calf to the mother, and the first calf born at the zoo since the construction of the expanded enclosure (which allows the zoo to keep a bull simultaneously to the matriarchal herd with little space issues). The herd now consists of the calf, his parents, and his two older maternal half sisters.
 
Artis will begin a phased opening from 13 May.

At first entry will be limited to members and once extended there will entries reserved for members. Entry will be by pre-booked ticket for a specific time.

Indoor areas including Micropia and the Planetarium remain closed. Walk-through areas are also closed.

Visitors are asked not to come by public transport to avoid pressure on the network but should walk, cycle or drive to the zoo.
 
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Some infos about the births of giraffes would be great

in 16.05.14 mother Jelani /28.07.15 mother Iwana/19.10.15 mother Kadija/30.11.15 mother Jelani /13.04.18 mother Iwana

16.11.16 thought thats Obi - mother Iwana but not sure about Jengo (now Africa Alive Kessingland) or Obi (Wien)
 
Elephant calf was named Vinh.
A Vietnamese name used for girls (in Vietnam). Vinh actually means "bay" in Vietnamese.
(I am open to corrections though)

It does not mean - nor do I think it does - they were specifically naming the calf for its sex. Strictly speaking it had to be an Asian name.
 
Today I visited Artis, and noticed the following things:
- Just the monkey house and Micropia were closed, apart from that you couldn’t enter the children zoo and the Red Lemur enclosure.
- I was very surprised to see the new indoor gibbon exhibit was almost finished. It only needed to be finished from the inside.
- squirrel monkey and mute swan weren’t on zootierliste anymore and I didn’t see any of them.
- the Thomson’s gazelles left the park already, here were the giraffes signed, although they were still at the Savanna exhibit.
- de reeve’s muntjacs, which used to be on a small part of the South America exhibit (with llama, vicuña etc.) now live in the entire exhibit. Strange that they live there imo though.
- the three shrews are not in the small mammal house anymore, the prevost squrrels now have acces to all 3 enclosures on this side of the house, the armadillo’s can to to the former three shrew exhibit now as well, but not in the usual prevost squirrel enclosure. The goeldi’s monkeys are back at the small mammal house, they live next to the emperor tamarin’s.
- de vicuña’s are not in the south-America exhibit anymore, but now live in the former red river hog enclosure (before that Guanaco enclosure).
- in in the old Malayan tapir enclosure do now live 2 South American tapirs.
- in the metzelaarskas they were preparing to open it again.
- anoa’s aren’t living with the crested black macaques anymore but they do live in their other enclosyre
- I think the black-necked swan is gone as well.
- on the outside of the monkeyhouse (old tree porcupine enclosure) now live the ‘Satyr tragopan’ pheasants.
- the Komododragons are gone now there now lives one rhinoceros iguana and one turtle (don’t know what kind of turtle)
 
Today I visited Artis, and noticed the following things:
- in in the old Malayan tapir enclosure do now live 2 South American tapirs.
Did the South American tapirs move from the South America exhibit to the former Malayan tapir exhibit or do they just have them in two enclosures now?
 
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