So does the Monterey Zoo no longer have any elephants? I thought there was another bull elephant at that facility. Edit: My mistake it was another African elephant female named Buffy who recently passed.
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North American African Elephant Population
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Mr.Ivory
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Monterey zoo no longer has elephants Butch is the bull you are talking about
Elephantelephant
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I think if Pittsburgh communicated more with the public and shared bad and good news with it, public opinion would improve. Unfortunately, because of this behavior, it is becoming a target for animal rights activists.
Pittsburgh has provided an update on their elephant calf, she is still in “guarded condition.” They also include a picture of the calf nursing from her mother.
News: Elephant Calf Remains in Guarded Condition | Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium
News: Elephant Calf Remains in Guarded Condition | Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium
Thanks for sharing. I am glad the calf is nursing from her mom and they are having some relationship.
Mr.Ivory
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Am I the only one who hated how the SSP wasted the late Machito (Zoo Miami) until his death in 2012. He only sired one calf with a female named Tribby.
Tribby became pregnant at age thirteen after naturally mating Machito in January 1992. Hurricane Andrew caused the transfer Tribby and numerous other elephants to other facilities across the country due to damage at the zoo. Tribby was about ten months pregnant at the time of her move (in her second trimester). On March 16th, 1994 a 230 pound female calf was born to Tribby. Unfortunately there were some complications. The female calf died 21 hours later during surgery that was supposed to correct a ruptured abdominal hernia.
Now, this birth proved Machito’s fertility. I am interested in knowing why he was not being used as a natural breeding bull, or a AI sire. He could have breed naturally because he was living with females Peggy and Mable but the paring with both cows never bore fruit.
But If we could go back in time I would move Kimba and Sheena (and if possible at the time Mokala, Msichana, and maybe even Tina, Star, and Mary) to Miami to mate with Machito while moving Peggy and Mable to Jacksonville to live with Missy in Jacksonville along with (Robin, Petunia, Joni, and Ladybird, I can only dream).
Tribby became pregnant at age thirteen after naturally mating Machito in January 1992. Hurricane Andrew caused the transfer Tribby and numerous other elephants to other facilities across the country due to damage at the zoo. Tribby was about ten months pregnant at the time of her move (in her second trimester). On March 16th, 1994 a 230 pound female calf was born to Tribby. Unfortunately there were some complications. The female calf died 21 hours later during surgery that was supposed to correct a ruptured abdominal hernia.
Now, this birth proved Machito’s fertility. I am interested in knowing why he was not being used as a natural breeding bull, or a AI sire. He could have breed naturally because he was living with females Peggy and Mable but the paring with both cows never bore fruit.
But If we could go back in time I would move Kimba and Sheena (and if possible at the time Mokala, Msichana, and maybe even Tina, Star, and Mary) to Miami to mate with Machito while moving Peggy and Mable to Jacksonville to live with Missy in Jacksonville along with (Robin, Petunia, Joni, and Ladybird, I can only dream).
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Omaha Zoo announced second elephant pregnancy this morning. Claire and Kiki are both expected to deliver calfs in February 2022.
Kiki’s hormone levels have fluctuated a lot over her pregnancy, so zoo was unable to 100% confirm viable pregnancy until recently.
Kiki’s hormone levels have fluctuated a lot over her pregnancy, so zoo was unable to 100% confirm viable pregnancy until recently.
Mr.Ivory
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Hopefully Omma, and Jayei are also pregnant
That’s absolutely amazing news! Callee sure is following in his prolific dads footsteps!
Mr.Ivory
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And hopefully he just like his father sire's mainly female calves, this may be werid but I can imagine Callie's first two calves be a male and female, just like his dad when he and Victoria were born back in 1999 and 2000
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Elephantelephant
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Absolutely great news. This could revive the North American population. I believe Jayei, Lolly and Omma will also get pregnant soon.
Amazing news Omaha! I really hope Louie picked up on some of that fancy footwork Callee's been laying down when he was there.
Pittsburgh just had a calf so probably not. I’m hoping one of these days at Dallas they have a calf. Has the bull there now reach sexual maturity
Hopefully Dallas has a calf soon, Zola is getting pretty old and still hasn’t had a calf. Tendaji should definitely be able to breed at this point, he’s in his late teens like Zola and Mlilo.
Some interesting info (as always!) from the North Carolina Zoo's Zoo EDventures series on YouTube:
- The zoo is in fact hoping to keep all three bulls at the park by integrating them into a bachelor herd. Introductions to Louie with both Csar and Artie have gone well.
- Louie has been on habitat with Batir and Tonga but hasn't shown breeding behaviors yet.
- He's currently a little under 8,000 lbs.
- The zoo is in fact hoping to keep all three bulls at the park by integrating them into a bachelor herd. Introductions to Louie with both Csar and Artie have gone well.
- Louie has been on habitat with Batir and Tonga but hasn't shown breeding behaviors yet.
- He's currently a little under 8,000 lbs.
That’s very interesting and not a bad move.
Unfortunately, that’s no surprise.
We’ve had plenty of discussions about the zoos breeding program, which imo is pretty horribly done. But I have always loved how the NC Zoo has managed to integrate bull elephants with females almost every day on exhibit and rotate the bulls and females around. Its so much better than the old philosophy of a bull in an isolated yard (which plenty of zoos sadly still do). C’Sar is fairly gentle so I can imagine he’d be a great candidate to mix with other bulls. I need to get back to the zoo soon to see the herd
gee, I’m shocked about there being no breeding behaviors with Batir and Tonga
isn’t their a female elephant at North Carolina Reya or something like that. She’s somewhere like 19 I think. And why can’t they just artificially inseminate those girls if they want calves so badly. They need to breeding like they have at Omaha
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