birth Newborn elephant at Vienna Zoo xx
2013-09-05
- Vienna, Austria. Harald Schwammer, Vienna Zoo
This is the first calf which was sired through artificial insemination with frozen sperm and its father is a wild elephant bull at Phinda Reserve in Africa. Through a novel technique which was developed by a team from Berlin’s Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research the sperm gained in the bush was frozen and successfully thawed.
Read more research How the elephant gets its infrasound. Blowing air through a pachyderm’s larynx offers hints to low-frequency communication xx
2012-08-03
- Vienna, Austria.
Elephants don’t purr so much as sing when they unleash low-frequency rumblings at friends and foes kilometers away. Too low for humans to hear, the infrasonic components of elephants’ calls have at times been attributed to a process similar to a cat’s contented thrum. But new measurements made by blowing air through the voice box, or larynx, of a deceased zoo elephant suggest that the mechanism is actually a (much bigger) analog to a person speaking or singing.
Read more zoo Schönbrunn Christmas tree provides new year menu for the zoo xx
2012-01-11
- Vienna, Austria.
The 16.5 metre high Christmas tree which has stood proudly in front of Schloß Schönbrunn in Vienna, Austria, over the Christmas period, is to be taken down today (Tues) and turned into animal feed. "The tree serves as not only food for the elephants but also as a toy," said Zoo director, Harald Schwanner, who has watched the animals play with the shredded tree in previous years.
Read more workshop Elephant-Keeper meeting and Protected Contact Training Workshop xx
2011-12-01
- Vienna, Austria.
This course is organized as a workshop and will be basically in English language but main parts of the presentations and live performances will be provided in English and German. The Workshop is turned specifically to elephant keepers but also veterinarians and curators. The program includes theory - and a lot of practical parts and deals with various topics related to advanced protected contact methods. Beneath preparation for birth, foot care and enrichment there is a special part of the works...
Read more misc Vienna Zoo elephant calf to be named Tuluba xx
2010-08-16
- Vienna, Austria.
The Vienna Zoo’s new male elephant calf born on 6 August will be named Tuluba, the zoo announced today. Some 61.4 per cent of the 10,000 voters on the internet chose the name, which means "big ears." Zoo Director Dagmar Schratter said: "Tuluba was my favourite since it is a very melodic name.
Read more pictures African elephant Numbi and her newborn son (6.8.2010) from Tiergarten Schönbrunn Vienna xx
2010-08-11
- Vienna, Austria. Jutta Kirchner
Photographer Jutta Kirchner has portrayed the first day of public display of the new born african elephant in the oldest Zoo in the world, Tiergarten Schönbrunn in Vienna.
Read more misc Tusker Packs Trunk xx
2010-08-09
- Vienna, Austria.
This tinky tusker has caused big trouble for zoo bosses in Austria - where his five year old big brother has been forced to pack his trunk to make way for him. The five week old male African elephant - as yet unnamed by keepers - was expected to be a girl and join the herd at Vienna´s Schoenbrunn Zoo. But because he´s a boy, his big brother Kibo - born to the same mum Numbi five years ago - has to be sent to another zoo to avoid causing conflict in the colony.
Read more birth African elephant baby born in Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna xx
2010-08-06
- Vienna, Austria.
The as yet unnamed baby elephant was born this morning at Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria and weigh in at 112 kilos. The mother Numbi already had a baby 5 years ago, Kibo, who lives also in Schönnbrunn and will be a play mate for the new baby, said Zoo director Dagmar Schratter.
Read more misc Elephants at Austrian zoo get to play with used Christmas trees xx
2010-01-14
- Vienna, Austria.
Elephants at Vienna's city zoo got a rare treat Monday: a Christmas tree. The 65-foot-tall spruce Christmas tree in front of Vienna's Schoenbrunn Palace was given to the zoo animals. The tree was taken down that morning and will be used as feed and toys for the elephants. This isn't the only creative way the Austrians are recycling their Christmas trees. Last week, Vienna city officials announced that the 88-foot-tall Christmas tree on the square in front of Vienna's city hall would be made into...
Read more relocation Elephant bull Pambo has been moved from Venna Zoo to spanish safaripark Parque de la Naturaleza de Cabarceno xx
2009-10-27
- Vienna, Austria.
The 17 year old bull Pambo, born in Basel Zoo in Switzerland, has been transfered from Vienna Zoo to spanish safaripark Parque de la Naturaleza de Cabarceno, as breeder for the group of females there. Next spring Vienna will recieve a female with calf from Wuppertal Zoo in Germany
Read more abstract Articular cartilage in the knee joint of the African elephant, Loxodonta africana, Blumenbach 1797. xx
2008-01-01
- Vienna, Austria. Egger GF, Witter K, Weissengruber G, Forstenpointner G. University of Veterinary Medicine
Knee joints of one adult and three juvenile African elephants were dissected. The specific features of the articular cartilage with particular reference to matrix components were studied by light and electron microscopy and immunohistochemistry. The elephant knee joint cartilage contains an unusually low concentration of proteoglycans resulting in rather eosinophilic staining properties of the matrix. The very thick collagen fibers of the cartilage possibly represent collagen I.
Read more conference 2007 Annual meeting for International Committee for museums and collections of natural history xx
2007-08-20
- Vienna, Austria. Brigitta Schmid
Bernd Lötsch, the director general, and my team are looking forward to welcoming you at the Natural History Museum in Vienna. You will get the first Newsletter from ICOM-Austria in autumn. However, we succeeded in making some special arrangements for the members of ICOM-NATHIST, therefore an early information may be useful in advance.
Read more conference 8th International Conference on Environmental Enrichment xx
2007-08-05
- Vienna, Austria.
The ICEE is a meeting for the exchange of ideas about both theoretical and applied research on enrichment for animals under human care. The conference is held every two years in internationally diverse locations. Deadline for the receipt of abstracts for paper, poster and video submissions is March 1, 2007. Authors will be notified of the results of the review process by April 1, 2007.
Read more pictures Loxodonta africana - African elephant xx
2007-06-18
- Vienna, Austria. Nicole Weissenböck
Thermogram of the front surface of the right pinna, 30 days after the injury. A regular medical evidence of the ear. The wound is healed.
Read more abstract Call repertoire of infant African elephants: first insights into the early vocal ontogeny. xx
2007-06-01
- Vienna, Austria. AS Stoeger-Horwath, S Stoeger, HM Schwammer, and H Kratochvil
African savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) have a complex acoustic communication system, but very little is known about their vocal ontogeny. A first approach in ontogenetic studies is to define the call repertoire of specific age groups. Twelve hundred calls of 11 infant elephants from neonatal to 18 months of age recorded at the Vienna Zoo in Austria and at the Daphne Sheldrick's orphanage at the Nairobi National Park, Kenya were analyzed. Six call types were structurally distinguished: t...
Read more abstract Renaut bodies in nerves of the trunk of the African elephant, Loxodonta africana. xx
2007-03-27
- Vienna, Austria. Witter K, Egger GF, Boeck P. University of Veterinary Medicine
Samples of the trunk wall of an adult African elephant (Loxodonta africana) were examined histologically using conventional staining methods, immunohistochemistry, and lectin histochemistry. Architecture of nerve plexuses and occurrence of Renaut bodies in the elephant trunk were compared with those in tissues surrounding the nasal vestibule of the pig. Prominent nerve plexuses were found in all layers of the elephant trunk.
Read more abstract The structure of the cushions in the feet of African elephants (Loxodonta africana). xx
2006-12-20
- Vienna, Austria. Weissengruber GE, Egger GF, Hutchinson JR, Groenewald HB, Elsässer L, Famini D, Forstenpointner G. Veterinary University of Vienna
The cushions in the feet of African elephants were examined by means of standard anatomical and histological techniques, computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The micromorphology of elephant feet cushions resembles that of digital cushions in cattle or of the foot pads in humans but not that of digital cushions in horses. Besides their important mechanical properties, foot cushions in elephants seem to be very sensitive structures.
Read more abstract The structure of the cushions in the feet of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) xx
2006-11-23
- Vienna, Austria. Weissengruber GE, Egger GF, Hutchinson JR, Groenewald HB, Elsasser L, Famini D, Forstenpointner G.Department of Pathobiology, Veterinary University of Vienna
The uniquely designed limbs of the African elephant, Loxodonta africana, support the weight of the largest terrestrial animal. The micromorphology of elephant feet cushions resembles that of digital cushions in cattle or of the foot pads in humans but not that of digital cushions in horses. Besides their important mechanical properties, foot cushions in elephants seem to be very sensitive structures.
Read more fossil Stone Age Neanderthals Twins Discovered Buried Under Mammoths Shoulder Blade xx
2006-11-15
- Vienna, Austria. JR Minkel
Researchers have unearthed the graves of three Stone Age infants that may ultimately bear on the question of whether humans interbred with Neandertals. The rare find, from a 27,000-year-old site in Austria, includes two bodies that might be twins sheltered under a mammoth's shoulder blade. The twins had been protected from the elements by the mammoth bone and were very well preserved, says team member Christine Neugebauer-Maresch of the Prehistoric Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences ...
Read more relocation Vienna: elephant bull Abu and mother Sabi to Halle Zoo in Germany xx
2006-07-21
- Vienna, Austria. Vienna Zoo Press release
The 5-year old Abu, born with artificial insemination in Vienna Zoo, and his mother Sabi, owned by Munich Zoo but living in Vienna since 1992, arrived early morning the 20th in Halle Zoo in German Sachsen-Anhalt, after a nightly transport performed by the company Interzoo.
Read more accident Viennese elephant house in mourning after casualty xx
2005-02-21
- Vienna, Austria. Press-information, Vienna Zoo
Yesterday, on Sunday Feb. 20th, 2005 around 10.40 am the head keeper of the elephant house, 39 year old Gerd Kohl was attacked and deadly injured by the young elephant bull “Abu”. Gerd Kohl was considered one of the most experienced elephant keepers in Europe and therefore was also the one who took care of and trained the 4 year old Abu (born on April 25, 2001) in Schoenbrunn.
Read more accident Elephant bull Abu impales Zookeeper Gerd Kohl in Vienna Zoo xx
2005-02-20
- Vienna, Austria. AP
An elephant crushed a keeper to death Sunday at the Vienna Zoo, police said. Zookeeper Gerhard Kohl, 39, was killed after he had showered the elephant, Abu, as part of the morning routine, the Austria Press Agency said, citing veterinarian Thomas Voracek. The elephant, an almost 4-year-old bull, pinned Kohl to the wall and speared him with his tusks, APA reported.
Read more death Elephant Jumbo in Vienna Zoo dead xx
2005-02-13
- Vienna, Austria. Tiergarten Schönbrunn
The female africant Jumbo in Vienna Zoo is dead. When the elephant keepers came for work in the morning, she was dead.
Read more 23 Headlines about Elephants from Austria 2013-09-05 - Vienna, Austria - Newborn elephant at Vienna Zoo
2012-08-03 - Vienna, Austria - How the elephant gets its infrasound. Blowing air through a pachyderm’s larynx offers hints to low-frequency communication
2012-01-11 - Vienna, Austria - Schönbrunn Christmas tree provides new year menu for the zoo
2011-12-01 - Vienna, Austria - Elephant-Keeper meeting and Protected Contact Training Workshop
2010-08-16 - Vienna, Austria - Vienna Zoo elephant calf to be named Tuluba
2010-08-11 - Vienna, Austria - African elephant Numbi and her newborn son (6.8.2010) from Tiergarten Schönbrunn Vienna
2010-08-09 - Vienna, Austria - Tusker Packs Trunk
2010-08-06 - Vienna, Austria - African elephant baby born in Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna
2010-01-14 - Vienna, Austria - Elephants at Austrian zoo get to play with used Christmas trees
2009-10-27 - Vienna, Austria - Elephant bull Pambo has been moved from Venna Zoo to spanish safaripark Parque de la Naturaleza de Cabarceno
2008-01-01 - Vienna, Austria - Articular cartilage in the knee joint of the African elephant, Loxodonta africana, Blumenbach 1797.
2007-08-20 - Vienna, Austria - 2007 Annual meeting for International Committee for museums and collections of natural history
2007-08-05 - Vienna, Austria - 8th International Conference on Environmental Enrichment
2007-06-18 - Vienna, Austria - Loxodonta africana - African elephant
2007-06-01 - Vienna, Austria - Call repertoire of infant African elephants: first insights into the early vocal ontogeny.
2007-03-27 - Vienna, Austria - Renaut bodies in nerves of the trunk of the African elephant, Loxodonta africana.
2006-12-20 - Vienna, Austria - The structure of the cushions in the feet of African elephants (Loxodonta africana).
2006-11-23 - Vienna, Austria - The structure of the cushions in the feet of African elephants (Loxodonta africana)
2006-11-15 - Vienna, Austria - Stone Age Neanderthals Twins Discovered Buried Under Mammoths Shoulder Blade
2006-07-21 - Vienna, Austria - Vienna: elephant bull Abu and mother Sabi to Halle Zoo in Germany
2005-02-21 - Vienna, Austria - Viennese elephant house in mourning after casualty
2005-02-20 - Vienna, Austria - Elephant bull Abu impales Zookeeper Gerd Kohl in Vienna Zoo
2005-02-13 - Vienna, Austria - Elephant Jumbo in Vienna Zoo dead
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- Zurich, Switzerland.
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