All asian female elephants have small tusks like kandula. They are kulled tushes (IDK if thats the correct spelling but I know its the correct pronunciation). BTW, I know Kandula is a male (duh), I am just comparing his tusks to those of a female.
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dcpandafan
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When Shanti [i'm assuming it's her] lifts up her trunk at 4:31 I don't see anything.
But than again I could be stupid.
I heard about it in a video from the Cincinnati zoo where thane is talking to the elephant director there so Shanthi is probably just in an odd angle so it's hard to see
dcpandafan
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No the camera is basically under her trunk.
There's also nothing at 1:57.
Well I found this.
"About 50% of female Asian elephants and a small percentage of males have small tusk like teeth known as tushes."
dcpandafan
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I've uploaded some new photos to the gallery.
Also sorry for uploading a lot of photos as of late I've just been going to the zoo almost every week as of late and I like posting the photos I take.
Also sorry for uploading a lot of photos as of late I've just been going to the zoo almost every week as of late and I like posting the photos I take.
dcpandafan
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FIRST LADIES OF US AND PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA NAME THE GIANT PANDA CUB AT THE SMITHSONIAN’S NATIONAL ZOO
tHE CUB IS NAMED BEI BEI
https://nationalzoo.si.edu/publications/pressmaterials/pressreleases/press-release.cfm?id=2718
That's fine. As long as they're new photos of good enough quality and not just basically the same shot over and over then there's nothing wrong with posting a lot of photos
~Thylo
dcpandafan
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That's fine. As long as they're new photos of good enough quality and not just basically the same shot over and over then there's nothing wrong with posting a lot of photos
~Thylo
Oh okay well hopefully most of my photos aren't the same.
Oh and I just wanted to know what do you think of them? I understand most of them aren't that good [mostly talking about the ones of the gorillas] and are a bit blurry but overall what do you think?
Just curious.
dcpandafan
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Oh I didn't see. I probably just forgot the 50% part since its like a detail
dcpandafan
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I thought this was cute enough to post but there's a twitter account for Bao Bao and Bei Bei.
https://twitter.com/houseofcubs
https://twitter.com/BaoBaoPanda
https://twitter.com/houseofcubs
https://twitter.com/BaoBaoPanda
dcpandafan
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I went to the zoo today and thought I would post some updates.
1. It looks like the zoo has finished adding the glass to the outdoors gorilla exhibit.
2. An exhibit in the small mammal house that had been empty every other time i've gone to the zoo this year had geoffroy's marmoset added to it but I did not see any.
3. There was a sign in the reptile discovery center about a future Japanese giant salamander exhibit.
4. The alligator snapping turtle exhibit in the reptile discovery center was empty and the water was drained out so they're probably doing some maintenance to it.
5. It looks like Kwame is officially a Silverback now but Kojo is still a Blackback. I think I knew which was which.
6. Fennec foxes are the cutest things ever I don't care what you say they are.
7. The old peccary exhibit is still empty.
1. It looks like the zoo has finished adding the glass to the outdoors gorilla exhibit.
2. An exhibit in the small mammal house that had been empty every other time i've gone to the zoo this year had geoffroy's marmoset added to it but I did not see any.
3. There was a sign in the reptile discovery center about a future Japanese giant salamander exhibit.
4. The alligator snapping turtle exhibit in the reptile discovery center was empty and the water was drained out so they're probably doing some maintenance to it.
5. It looks like Kwame is officially a Silverback now but Kojo is still a Blackback. I think I knew which was which.
6. Fennec foxes are the cutest things ever I don't care what you say they are.
7. The old peccary exhibit is still empty.
dcpandafan
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AmbikaFan
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Hi! just discovered this site--it's great! I have a few tidbits of info to add:
The AZA elephant TAG has been planning for some time to move Kandula to a place where he can be around an older bull and learn about breeding. Rex at OKC has fathered at least the 5 calves sired in Canada and should be a great mentor. (But like someone else posted here, I thought both Houston and St. Louis needed him more. Houston's stud is now over 50, and St. Louis has 4 girls aged 4-9 who will need a husband.)
Apparently what motivated the move now is a longtime plan to bring Indy here from Springfield, MO's Dickerson Park Zoo. Despite 2 living births, Shanthi's many AI's have not been successful, and the AZA considers her wildborn genes quite valuable. In 1991 or 1992, Shanthi journeyed to Syracuse, NY to be bred to Indy, a mating that produced the delicate and lovely Kumari, whose death brought about the discovery of the herpes virus in 1995. So the new male to come can not only breed Maharani, but is the only bull to have ever impregnated our Shanthi. The idea of Indy, I believe, came first, and that move has simply been awaiting Kandula's departure. This is confirmed by OKC's statement that they have no plans to breed him yet.
Keepers from the Rosamund Gifford Zoo in Syracuse describe Indy as the most intelligent elephant they've known, with a kind of cunning. They also say his aggression level when in musth is, on a scale of 10, 10 our of 10. Keepers from RG will be coming to NZP to help our staff learn how to manage him. Indy's fathered 4 living offspring, including Chunda, now Emmet who's fathered about 20 in England. He's also represented by daughters Kirina and Mali of RG and Rani in St. Louis and their 3 youngsters. I will miss Kandula tremendously, but I am intrigued by the thought of a challenging bull like Indy and the possibility of another Shanthi calf!
For what it's worth, I've seen all four of the US Calvin sons, and both Albert and Samson of ABQ and George and Johnson in Canada, and they all have tusks. Interesting fact that Sri Lankan males have no tusks if true. The other Calvin sons could simply have inherited the tusked-ness of their mothers instead of Calvin. Johnson and Samson's mother is Kitty, who is from Thailand; George and Albert's mothers are sisters Lilly and Phoebe originally Ramat Gan Zoo in Israel, and while I don't know their country of origin, they both have very high and very pronounced domes indicative of Thai elephants.
Like a poster here, I have also heard that one of the Calgary elephants was pregnant before coming to DC. NZP isn't always entirely up front about such things--the way the public was never told about Kandula's relationship to Kamala and Maharani via Calvin. I had become doubtful because no one looked visibly pregnant, but became suspicious again during the months that the Elephant House was closed due to Swarna "feeling under the weather." We still haven't any idea what that was all about, and i suspected TB. However, could it be Swarna who was/is pregnant? Does anyone know what was going on with Swarna? Wouldn't we be getting close to a delivery date if someone had been impregnated in Calgary?
Sorry to be so long. Just wanted to share what I knew.
PS Back when that India exhibit happened, the zoo didn't yet even have the sloth bears or other Asia Trail animals except the elephants, as that exhibit wasn't built until circa 2004. Ambika, the lone Indian elephant, was the only animal I know of at that time who was actually Indian.
and PSS, the Australia House had to be demolished not only to create the Asia Trail exhibits, but because a major investigation into the zoo's infrastructure (done, I seem to believe, for accredidation purposes) revealed it to be structurally unsound and extremely dangerous. It was closed on the spot. As mentioned, it never had wallabies, kangeroos, or koalas, the "signature" species of the contiinent, so it had already become a somewhat disappointing exhibit and/or a thoroughfare that visitors to the Panda House had to go through to get back to the main trail.
The AZA elephant TAG has been planning for some time to move Kandula to a place where he can be around an older bull and learn about breeding. Rex at OKC has fathered at least the 5 calves sired in Canada and should be a great mentor. (But like someone else posted here, I thought both Houston and St. Louis needed him more. Houston's stud is now over 50, and St. Louis has 4 girls aged 4-9 who will need a husband.)
Apparently what motivated the move now is a longtime plan to bring Indy here from Springfield, MO's Dickerson Park Zoo. Despite 2 living births, Shanthi's many AI's have not been successful, and the AZA considers her wildborn genes quite valuable. In 1991 or 1992, Shanthi journeyed to Syracuse, NY to be bred to Indy, a mating that produced the delicate and lovely Kumari, whose death brought about the discovery of the herpes virus in 1995. So the new male to come can not only breed Maharani, but is the only bull to have ever impregnated our Shanthi. The idea of Indy, I believe, came first, and that move has simply been awaiting Kandula's departure. This is confirmed by OKC's statement that they have no plans to breed him yet.
Keepers from the Rosamund Gifford Zoo in Syracuse describe Indy as the most intelligent elephant they've known, with a kind of cunning. They also say his aggression level when in musth is, on a scale of 10, 10 our of 10. Keepers from RG will be coming to NZP to help our staff learn how to manage him. Indy's fathered 4 living offspring, including Chunda, now Emmet who's fathered about 20 in England. He's also represented by daughters Kirina and Mali of RG and Rani in St. Louis and their 3 youngsters. I will miss Kandula tremendously, but I am intrigued by the thought of a challenging bull like Indy and the possibility of another Shanthi calf!
For what it's worth, I've seen all four of the US Calvin sons, and both Albert and Samson of ABQ and George and Johnson in Canada, and they all have tusks. Interesting fact that Sri Lankan males have no tusks if true. The other Calvin sons could simply have inherited the tusked-ness of their mothers instead of Calvin. Johnson and Samson's mother is Kitty, who is from Thailand; George and Albert's mothers are sisters Lilly and Phoebe originally Ramat Gan Zoo in Israel, and while I don't know their country of origin, they both have very high and very pronounced domes indicative of Thai elephants.
Like a poster here, I have also heard that one of the Calgary elephants was pregnant before coming to DC. NZP isn't always entirely up front about such things--the way the public was never told about Kandula's relationship to Kamala and Maharani via Calvin. I had become doubtful because no one looked visibly pregnant, but became suspicious again during the months that the Elephant House was closed due to Swarna "feeling under the weather." We still haven't any idea what that was all about, and i suspected TB. However, could it be Swarna who was/is pregnant? Does anyone know what was going on with Swarna? Wouldn't we be getting close to a delivery date if someone had been impregnated in Calgary?
Sorry to be so long. Just wanted to share what I knew.
PS Back when that India exhibit happened, the zoo didn't yet even have the sloth bears or other Asia Trail animals except the elephants, as that exhibit wasn't built until circa 2004. Ambika, the lone Indian elephant, was the only animal I know of at that time who was actually Indian.
and PSS, the Australia House had to be demolished not only to create the Asia Trail exhibits, but because a major investigation into the zoo's infrastructure (done, I seem to believe, for accredidation purposes) revealed it to be structurally unsound and extremely dangerous. It was closed on the spot. As mentioned, it never had wallabies, kangeroos, or koalas, the "signature" species of the contiinent, so it had already become a somewhat disappointing exhibit and/or a thoroughfare that visitors to the Panda House had to go through to get back to the main trail.
wensleydale
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Welcome to ZooChat. More info is always welcome here! Have you started your introduction thread yet? I kind of think of this site as a celebrity gossip (well, actually we prefer real, truthful information as opposed to gossip) except instead of stupid celebrities we have excellent zoos and animals, the opposite of stupid.
Wouldn't a pregnancy have been announced by now though. Or is the NZ tight lipped about such things.
I'm glad Rex will be teaching Kandula all he knows, hopefully by the time he reaches breeding age he will know what he is doing.
dcpandafan
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The NZ doesn't really release a lot of news about anything really.
When they sent Kigali [Gorilla] away to another zoo it was during the government shutdown and they didn't even release it the Washington post mentioned it in an article... and they didn't remove her profile from the site until three months after.
dcpandafan
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The zoo had Bengal tigers until the early 2000's so i'm sure they had other Indian animals... and the fact that the India exhibit was basically a sign and portrait maybe next to animals around the zoo FROM India.
Also I don't know how long but the I think every animal on the Asia trail the zoo had well before it opened in 2006 {maybe not the salamander}.
Also Welcome to zoochat!