Mary, left, an elephant at the Montgomery Zoo, is joined by Star and Mary's newborn calf, an unnamed male. Mary died just days after giving birth to the calf.

2008-08-19 - Mont­gomery, United States , Teri Greene

A male African elephant calf born early Thursday morning at the Mont­gomery Zoo was the second elephant calf born at the zoo within the past year. But the joyous occasion was soon marred by sorrow. After giving birth, the elephant calf's 23-year-old mother became ill. She died Saturday, reported Sarah McKemey of the Montgomery Zoo. Preliminary necropsy results in­dicate that Mary, one of the zoo's per­manent elephant herd, died from complications due to colic with intes­tinal rupture...

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