Two young females, a gift from the Rotterdam Zoo, are expected to be bred with the zoo’s male elephant.
, for the past four years. The two have bred often, but for unknown reasons Maharani has not become pregnant.“They’re really nice girls,” said veteran elephant manager Marie Galloway, who recently traveled to Rotterdam to meet them. “It was terrific, because I got to know a little bit more about them. … We want to do everything we can to make their transition as easy as possible.”
She added that they are closely bonded to each other, and the mother does not like to be separated from her daughter. The younger elephant, however, “would like a little more adventure and get away from mom a little bit,” she said.English, which has been used in their training, Galloway said. “It would be nice if both [females] had a couple of calves on the ground in a couple years,” she said. “The best enrichment we can give an elephant is more elephants.”The acquisition “is part of the vision for [the zoo’s] Elephant Trails [exhibit] when it was renovated a decade ago, to have a multigenerational herd, and produce babies and have a normal herd of elephants like you would see if you were watching the Smithsonian channel,” said Bryan Amaral, senior zoo curator.
From there they journeyed by truck the 240 miles to the zoo in Washington. Trong Nhi weighs 8,000 pounds, the zoo said. Nhi Linh weighs 5,700 pounds.They were a gift from the Rotterdam Zoo, the National Zoo said. The Rotterdam Zoo has had success in its breeding program and Galloway said Nhi Linh and Trong Nhi were not getting along well with the others.
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