Be nice if you attached the link to source (which is the normal course of action). Like most individuals I and a good part of this forum hold little water for Wikipedia and its other sub groups. They are hardly the pinnacle of validated fact-finding nor a reliable news source.
Thank you for beeing me so unkind. Sorry for that I was sharing "not reliable" news. In the future won't share anything, and won't make people confusing.
Terrible start to the year for Arnhem, already back down to two elephants. At least Pinky and Dunja both lived longs lives and had severe health issues.
It is the natural order of things... with elderly elephants. Both females lived a long life and were specifically cared for at Burgers' Zoo for end of life care. Cow Pinky was probably the elephant who has resided the longest time at Burgers' itself. She was an icon of the old Hagenbeck rock work of the park. I have the utmost respect for her keepers and the head elephant keeper who so eloquently and touchingly commented both elephants histories and what end of life care means both for animal and staff.
The six vaccinated adult elephants did not experience any side effects. Therefore, it was now the younger elephants' turn. Radjik and Maxi received the vaccine last Monday at Diergaarde Blijdorp. Mauk and Manoa were also vaccinated at Wildlands Emmen this week. Some other Dutch zoos will also vaccinate young elephants. Vaccination will then be started in other countries as well. These elephants will be monitored for a longer period to see whether they make enough antibodies against the virus and whether these antibodies eventually protect against the virus.
I am confident that the consortium of zoos pantsering with the Utrecht University's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will see this test through and that finally we have an effective vaccine for our growing Asiatic and African elephant herds.
No vaccine is 100% effective and with most viral diseases virulence and mutability are prime drivers. Mind you: Our current human influenza vaccines are always based around strains that have been developped ante 1-2 years prior (that is the inevitability of vaccine protection only over time and always by a margin in production to commercial use and the ever evolving new viri... cycle.
Shandra was born in 1966 and arrived at Hagenbeck Sellingen in May 1974. She has reached a respectable age at 59+. She contributed greatly during her life to the European elephant population and had no geweer than 6 calves (her last one was F Shila in 2007 ...). May She R.I.P.
Shandra only had on calf, a stillborn male born in 1996, and Shila's mother is Lai Sinh
Sorry, You are right ... I checked against the Swedish elephant.se ONLY. Should I have used Petra Prager's site for reference, I could have known....
Timber will move from Wildlands to Eindhoven Zoo. The move was already planned in September last year, but was postponed because he came in musth. He recently came out of the musth, so rumours are that he will move soon.