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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 ...
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 ...
One of these female elephants, Melia, gave birth to her first calf on Saturday, Oct. 29. Melia and the rest of her herd had gathered near the main gate of the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust’s Ithumba ...
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.
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 ...
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.
Fewer than a third of the elephants in captivity are still young enough to reproduce, and the first live births of captive elephants didn’t even happen in America until the 1960s.
Fresno Chaffee Zoo in California is celebrating the birth of another African Elephant, its second in ten days. On August 26, 2024, the Fresno Chaffee Zoo welcomed an African Elephant Calf into the ...