Elephant twins and triplet

vogelcommando

vogelcommando

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At the moment I´m putting together a list of elephant twins and triplets. The list sofar is quite short and surtenly inclomplete :
Asian Elephant :
1993 Thailand 2 females survived
1996 Antwerp Zoo 1 male 1 female dead at birth
2009 Chitwan Nat. Park Nepal sexes unknown - said to be the 3th set of twins in this park !
2010 march Thailand captive 2 males survived
2010 oct. Thailand captive 2 females suvived
2010 dec. Rajiv Gandhi Nat. Park sexes unknown

only one triplet-birth found sofar:
1913 0ct. 27 Thailand 3 males, 1 death at birth, one lived untill 8 Nov. and the last died one day later Nov. 9 1913.

African Elephant:
2005 jan. Addo Nat. Park South Africa sexes unknown - said to be the 3th set of twins in the history of the park !
2007 Kruger Nat. Park South Africa observation of a herd with 2 sets of twins !
2009 july Aberdare Nat. Park Kenya sexes unknown
2011 jan. Howlett Park UK 1 male 1 unknown to me, only one survived

As said, probebly far from complete and I hope somebody can add the missing ones !
 
Christie of the Utah Hogle zoo is supposedly pregnant with twins...
MeTu of the Oregon zoo gave birth to twins in 1994, one was stillborn and the other (Rose Tu) is still alive and herself reproducing.
 
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I am also recording and compiling multiple births and am getting fairly far into it. Have you discovered anything further than what is on here? Once I transfer everything I have onto a computerter from my notebook I will post a document of my findings.
 
Also Asian elephant Thura from Leipzig Zoo was pregnant with twins, which was not known at the time. She went into labour for two days, but didn't give birth. Both calves were only discovered through the autopsy after Thura's death last year.
 
First known elphant twins ( Elephas maximus) in Human Care were born July 28 ( dead born), and August 10, 1951 at Munich Zoo. Both were female. The second was found after the mother died on August,10. It was of course dead , too.
 
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