ชวนไปดูฝรั่งออสเตรเลียประกวดตั้งชื่อลูกช้างไทยกันครับ

ที่มา : http://www.babble.com.au/2009/07/06/first-baby-elephant-born-in-australia/

After a whopping 22 months of pregnancy, former Bangkok street elephant Thong Dee has given birth to Australia’s first native-born elephant at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo.

Born at 3.08am on Saturday, the still-unnamed male calf weighs in at around 100kg and was born after a three-hour labour.

Zoo staff have said that the calf is healthy and already showing signs of an assertive personality, however he is being kept away from a curious public for the time being, though monitored in his barn on CCTV.

Thong Dee was one of eight elephants brought to Australia from Thailand in October 2006 as part of a zoo breeding program. Of those, one male and four females settled in at Taronga Zoo. While she was the first elephant to give birth, two other female elephants at Taronga Zoo, Porntip and Pak Boon, are due to give birth in early 2010 and 2011.

Zoo spokesperson Guy Cooper said he was delighted by the success of Taronga’s elephant breeding program.

“I don’t think we really anticipated we would have three of four calves pregnant by this stage,” he said.

Pregnancy and birth is very risky for female elephants - statistically there is around a 40 - 50% mortality rate with first-time elephant pregnancies. But if these pregnancies are successful they will be the starting point for a self sustaining Asian Elephant population in Australia, and play a large part in raising awareness of issues affecting the survival of Asian Elephants.

You can watch footage of the baby elephant at the Taronga Zoo website, and enter a competition to name him.

ประกวดตั้งชื่อที่เว็บของสวนสัตว์ Taronga ครับ

http://babyelephant.taronga.org.au/name-our-little-one.aspx

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