Taronga Zoo mating eles at TZ

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Zooey

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Hi all - I have just joined although have been reading your forum for some time.

I worked in a large zoo for six years with all sorts of critters excluding marine mammals and fish.

Heard on the grapevine Taronga's male elephant has been mating with some of the females a lot in the past few months. Is anyone able to verify this please? Any details ?

Thanks,
Zooey
 
Yep, I've seen him in action (even got a photo, though not a very good one.)

According to the keepers he's as keen as mustard! It must be a young elephant bloke's idea of heaven.

Now might be the time to change his name from Gung to Zooboy!
 
Hello Zooey, welcome (although having only been here a month myself you've probably been reading here longer than I..!)

How long is it till he moves to the old Elephant area..? What the status with this development..?

P.S. Prepare for your thread to be moved..!
 
When Auckland's older female Asian Elephant moved from the old concrete elephant house to the newer open area she had to LOSE about that much weight... She was up near 5 tonnes if I remember correctly... It took a few years...
 
same with mek kapah at melbourne. she landed a serious exercise routine to keep her in shape. she is now a healthy weight.
 
When Auckland's older female Asian Elephant moved from the old concrete elephant house to the newer open area she had to LOSE about that much weight... She was up near 5 tonnes if I remember correctly...


Hardly surprising though , considering the amount of room to exercise in the old elephant house . I felt that the development of a new elephant enclosure was way long overdue .
 
69 years they had Elephants in that house..!

I got that DVD from the Zoo today thanks for the heads up..!
 
How is Bong Su doing in the breeding stakes? It is rather silent over there? :confused: Perhaps, Mek Kapah is out of the question now at 32 (I think that has been said previously), but Dakkoon (17) is the right age, whereas it is even possible in the younger females Kulab and Num-Oi.

Any takers ... here? :cool:
 
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melbourne's elephants...

mek kapah, like all the elephants, was assessed by these "german experts" we hear so much about and unfortunately had cysts. she is apparently being treated to permanently shut-down her reproductive system.

dokkoon is not 17, she is only about 14. last i saw, many months ago, the zoo was in the process of introducing the cows to the bull and dokkoon particularly was showing plenty of interest.

unlike taronga, melbournes elephants didn't know each other and whilst kapah was living with the other cows within a couple of days, their bull is fully grown so the process has been much slower. thus they were probably set back somewhat in that they had to minimise any risks.

still, i commend melbourne for seeing integration of their older cow with the other elephants as a priority.
 
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