2010-05-28 - Adelaide, Australia
A group of Australian scientists managed to revive a primary component of mammoth blood, revealing, within a research published on Nature Genetics, how the colossal ancestors of modern elephants could survive in the Arctic area. The researchers of the Australian Centre for Ancient Dna of the Adelaide university, along with the colleagues from the university of Manitoba, Canada, managed to recreate the hemoglobin, the protein which carries oxygen, starting from fossil relics of Siberian animals t...
2010-03-25 - Sydney, Australia
The new calf has a name as of this morning. He is Pathi Harn, which is Thai for Miracle. Its pronounced Par Tea Harn. Hes doing really well, as is his mum Porntip, who is very attentive. Pathi Harn has been enjoying the water and also the mud wallow. He was blessed this morning by Thai Buddhist monks who came to the zoo especially for the naming ceremony.
2010-03-10 - Sydney, Australia
An elephant gave birth to a calf at Sydneys main zoo on Wednesday, surprising vets and keepers who two days earlier declared the baby had died in the womb. The Asian elephant mother delivered the male baby in the early hours of Wednesday in what Taronga Park Zoo officials said was "unbelievable good fortune".
2010-03-08 - Sydney, Australia
The matriarch of the zoos elephant herd, Porntip, showed on March 1 she was ready to give birth to a 100kg calf, after having been artificially inseminated about 22 months before. But by Sunday night ultrasound scans made it clear the calf had rotated inside its mothers womb and was lying upside down.
2010-03-04 - Melbourne , Australia
This is a key position for the continuing development and evolution of Zoos Victorias elephant program with the target of providing best practice animal care in a holistic environment. Candidates will require a minimum of five years of direct contact (free contact) elephant experience. Candidates will also require a high level of competency in handling elephants, and an understanding of traditional and progressive training techniques.
2010-02-25 - Melbourne, Australia
With her playful poise shes inspired a lot of oohs and ahhs and now, a bit of humming too. Melbourne Zoos baby elephant has been blessed by Buddhist monks after Victorians voted to name her "Mali", the Thai word for the jasmine flower. Arriving at the zoo on Thursday in orange robes, the monks from three Buddhist temples began a rumbling hum as they chanted before Mali and her mum Dokkoon.
2010-02-16 - Melbourne, Australia
The Thai names for five floral emblems have been short-listed and people can vote online to select the winner. The female baby elephant is one month old today and Premier John Brumby says Victorians have warmed to the calf. "There is nothing quite like a baby elephant and theyre up and running about from the first day," he said. "Shes unbelievably playful. Shes just running around with her mum, running around with her aunty out there, shes always mucking around their legs." Thailands Honorary Co...
2010-02-11 - Melbourne, Australia
THE former director of the Seattle and Werribee zoos has called for Melbourne Zoos growing elephant herd to be relocated to the more spacious Werribee Open Range Zoo as a matter of urgency. A second elephant, Kulab, which arrived from Thailand with new mother Dokkoon in 2006, is due to give birth in August-September. The arrival of a second calf would swell the zoos city campus herd to seven, following the birth last month of Victorias first baby elephant. David Hancocks said that as Parkvilles ...
2010-02-09 - Melbourne, Australia
The as-yet unnamed female, born on January 16, will go on display for short periods of time at first, but viewing times will be extended once she has adjusted to life in the public glare. The youngster is the first baby elephant born in the zoos 148-year history, the first elephant in Australia conceived by artificial insemination, and only the second baby elephant ever born in Australia. But she will not be on her own for long. The zoo is expecting another baby elephant in August or September t...
ELEPHANTS could be packing their trunks for Wyndham, thanks to Melbourne Zoos elephant breeding program. Werribee Open Range Zoo director Sally Lewis said the local zoo could become a second home to elephants born at Melbourne. But with elephant pregnancies lasting 22 months, dont expect to see them in the short term. Melbourne Zoo is Victorias only zoo with elephants. One of its five Asian elephants, Dokkoon, gave birth to the zoos first baby elephant last month, as part of a breeding program....
