Taronga Zoo its a big girl

[jay]

I think that it needs its own thread rather than tacked on the end of an old one.
New baby elephant born at Taronga Zoo | News.com.au
The article is also an example of sloppy journalism as it gives the impression that this is the first female to be born in the region, the first at Taronga yes.

 

[CGSwans]

A girl! What a relief. 4 young bulls would have been a placement headache in years to come.

 

[JaxElephant]

Great news for the Asian Elephant population in Australia. Finally a female in Taronga Zoo!

 

[Steve Robinson]

Congratulations to the Taronga elephant department.

And congratulations to torie too - you beat jay with the scoop!!

 

[dragon(ele)nerd]

great news! news said she is suckling without assitance go Pak Boon!

 

[CritterBlog]

She's a cutie

Sydney zoo welcomes third elephant calf - ABC Newcastle NSW - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

 

[Jabiru96]

My guess was right, it is a girl!!!

This is great news, now we have a total of 5 very young eles roaming about. This also brings the tally to 8 at Taronga

 

[cherieann]

I read this news article about the new calf here
Taronga Zoo welcomes new baby elephant | Ignition News

Taronga Zoo welcomes new baby elephant
Posted by Barb EdwinBreaking News, Featured News, Latest News, Special InterestWednesday, November 3rd, 2010

Taronga Zoo woke up early this morning with the welcomed delivery of Bobby-Jo Vial. The female calf was born at around 1.10am and weighed in at about 120 kilograms.

I don't THINK they've named the calf all ready

 

[Jarkari]

Wow! Big error! Lol as far as I know Bobby-Jo Vial took the photos of the new calf, possibly a taronga staffer. NOT the name of the calf.

 

[torie]

That is really funny! Bobby Jo will be flattered!

I just saw her she is very very sweet and looks a lot diffrent to the other two, much lighter colour and very petite looking!

 

[jay]

That is really funny! Bobby Jo will be flattered!

I just saw her she is very very sweet and looks a lot diffrent to the other two, much lighter colour and very petite looking!

Thanks fo posting the original news Torie. Hope you didn't mind that I created a new thread for it.

 

[Jabiru96]

Now the only one to not have a calf at Taronga is Tang Mo

 

[MARK]

Wonderful news, Happy Taronga has a girl at last, YAY

 

[Pertinax]

Good news for Taronga, especially it being a female. I think they should name her 'Bobby Jo' now though!...

 

[cherieann]

Have you seen this? It's the calf's first bath with Mum Pak Boon
Video here
First bath | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

 

[cherieann]

I loved the latest post on the Taronga website....
"She (the calf) even muddled up whose nipples to suckle off at one point but Thong Dee stood still as if it was her own calf, Luk Chai.

 

[MARK]

Congratulations to the Taronga elephant department.

And congratulations to torie too - you beat jay with the scoop!!

Looks like Jay is slipping a bit

 

[jay]

Looks like Jay is slipping a bit

Yeah definately

 

[CGSwans]

Well, to be fair torie had the inside running on this one!

 

[MARK]

It will be interesting to see what sex the calfs are to be born of the two remaining females which have not been bred yet, one at Taronga and the other at Melbourne zoo lets hope another couple of female calfs appear that would really look good for the furture of the species in oz