2009-02-26 - St Louis, Missouri, United States. Malcom Gay, NEW YORK TIMES
Zookeepers here feared the worst when they noticed that Jade, a 2-year-old elephant calf, was acting sluggish this month. The calf was limping slightly, her appetite was down, and the keepers, wary of a deadly herpes virus prevalent in the country’s Asian elephant population, sent a blood sample to a laboratory for analysis. “That’s pretty much the first thing we do when we see something amiss with our Asian elephant calves,” said Martha Fischer, curator of mammals at the...
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