Here is the thread: North American Asian and African Elephant Populations: Discussion and Speculation
Just became Jazmine’s dad is Samson doesn’t automatically make her not valuable. Yes, she isn’t as valuable as she would have been if her father was someone other than Samson or any of his relatives. However, she is still Rozanna’s only surviving daughter and Rozie is the only surviving daughter of two founders herself. So that would make Jazzy relatively valuable as her mom is very valuable while her dad is not at all. Rozie’s potential future calf’s sire could be Albert or another bull as for some reason 2 or maybe all 3 of her pregnancies so far have been via AI. That being said, if AI is attempted again I hope they choose to AI her with samples from another bull rather than Albert (or Samson) this time.
Hopefully the calf will be another female
That’s from over a year ago, they shared that video on Thanksgiving 2020. Oddly enough, OKC hasn’t provided any updates recently and haven’t even mentioned her being pregnant on their social medias. Hopefully the pregnancy is progressing well, there shouldn’t be anything to worry about though considering she’s a proven breeder. Also, there’s a pretty good chance she will give birth in January itself since she gave birth a month earlier than they expected when she was pregnant with both Malee and Kai.
. Wow am I stupid lol
Sometimes news reports do thatgeez. I saw it on Facebook and the news organization that posted it which was WLWT said it was 2 days ago
I don't think they will want to announce the pregnancy in advance, they will announce the birth.
I actually asked that same question after they responded with the above and they left me on read. I don’t think she’ll have any more calves though as it’s been 16 years since she last gave birth.
I also don't think he will have calves anymore. But I wonder why she didn't have another calves.
They stopped breeding Indy with Targa and Romani due to the death of Keder who died in the first few months, and Romani having a stillborn in 2006
That doesn’t make sense, just because Kedar died doesn’t mean Targa and Indy could no longer breed. Kedar didn’t even die of EEHV so it’s not like they paused their breeding program because of it. Targa and Mali left the zoo for ALS shortly after anyway. I know Romani had some reproductive issues after her stillborn though. Targa has been recommended to breed with Doc since his arrival but she has never conceived oddly.
They responded to me
I got the exact same response, word for word, this morning lol. I still doubt she’s going to get pregnant though, Doc and her have been together for nearly 10 years and nothing.
Well at least Mali can continue to breed, and her son Chuck will hopefully become a great breeding bull
We can only hope any future calves of Mali are female and don’t succumb to EEHV like Batu and Ajay did.