Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
When the zoo volunteers and staff say that this birth was a long time coming, they're not kidding. Humans are used to a 40-week gestation period (give or take) but when it comes to elephants, moms ...
Gabi in 2006. Gabi (born 10 December 2005 [1]), also known as Boon-Chooi, [2] is the first elephant conceived in Israel through artificial insemination. [3] [4] His 6-hour birth was viewed by over 350,000 people in 108 countries via live web streaming on the website of the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, [5] which coordinated the pregnancy and birth through its elephant artificial insemination program.
In the video, we get to see the new little baby being born! "On Monday morning, our animal care teams noticed Amahle showing signs of labor," the text on the video reads. "Shortly after, at 9:48 ...
One of these female elephants, Melia, gave birth to her first calf on Saturday, Oct. 29. ... The baby elephant flops its trunk up in the air, video shows. The baby — given the name Milo, which ...
Most mammals are viviparous, giving birth to live young. [1] However, the five species of monotreme, the platypuses and the echidnas, lay eggs. The monotremes have a sex determination system different from that of most other mammals. [2] In particular, the sex chromosomes of a platypus are more like those of a chicken than those of a therian ...
Elephants have a fission–fusion society, in which multiple family groups come together to socialise. Females (cows) tend to live in family groups, which can consist of one female with her calves or several related females with offspring. The leader of a female group, usually the oldest cow, is known as the matriarch.
In November, a pregnant African elephant named Semba was put on 24-hour watch at an Arizona zoo. Semba, the elephant “matriarch” at the Reid Park Zoo in Tucson, had birthed two babies before ...
The gestation period of an elephant is 22 months and fertile females usually give birth every 3–6 years, so if they live to around 50 years of age, they may produce 7 offspring. Females are a scarce and mobile resource for the males so there is intense competition to gain access to estrous females.