New Baby Elephant at the San Diego Zoo

Posted by NG Kids in News Bites on January 4, 2011
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Zookeepers at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park welcomed a new male elephant calf into the herd last week! The calf’s mother also has an older calf, who is almost four years old. The new baby hasn’t been named yet, but he has been busy exploring with his mother. The park’s elephant herd gave birth to four male calves in 2010.

See pictures of the baby elephant on the ZooBorns website.

Visit the San Diego Zoo Safari Park website to see a video of the baby.

Get the facts on African elephants in the Creature Feature.

Photograph by Ken Bohn, San Diego Zoo Safari Park

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Comments

  1. animallover123
    January 5, 2011, 8:10 am

    Congratulations mommy african elephant and i hope your little one will listen to your wise elephant words.

  2. animallover123
    January 5, 2011, 9:09 am

    congrats mommy african elephant if you can understand me. have a happy life with your youngster and make sure he listens to you.

  3. mini me
    January 5, 2011, 9:18 am

    Oh how cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thats cool i guess!!!!!!!!

  4. Vinny
    January 5, 2011, 9:26 am

    wow.. elephants are big!

  5. animallover123
    January 5, 2011, 7:37 pm

    i think i know what the elephant should be named……. jumbo! since he is an african elephant , his name means “hello” in african. I just hope he takes care of his ears because He’ll need them when he grows older. good luck mama elephant!!!:)

  6. jones6678
    January 6, 2011, 1:48 pm

    why can’t a elephant live on it’s own and not be held at zoo’s.

  7. jones6678
    January 6, 2011, 2:04 pm

    aw! pure littel fella taken away from it’s herd. let him go home -poure littel jumbo.

  8. Anonymous
    January 6, 2011, 2:13 pm

    wawwawwawwawwawwawawaw.

  9. Foxlover7
    January 9, 2011, 4:07 pm

    AAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    how cute, it looks so HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  10. hannahbananaclark
    January 12, 2011, 7:36 pm

    what a thing! did you know that sciencetists are trying to combine a wolly mammoths D.N.A with an Eleghants D.N.A!
    its amazing that they would do that!

  11. bregouge1
    January 17, 2011, 6:51 pm

    ohhhhhhhhhhhh! It’s soooooooo cute!:)

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