Visitors can now view Phoebe and her calf in the Asia Quest area’s elephant/rhino building daily from 10 a.m. The calf will join the herd of six Asian elephants in the zoo’s Asia Quest region but the baby and Phoebe will remain in a behind-the-scenes area for now. Born on June 16 to 33-year-old mother Phoebe, an Asian elephant calf made his public debut yesterday at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.
The calf’s mother, Phoebe, is a 31-year-old elephant who had the opportunity to breed with Hank, a 30-year-old male elephant at the zoo but attempts were unsuccessful so Zimmerman says Phoebe was artificially inseminated with sperm from Hank, as well as a male from another zoo, so the father of the calf is not yet known and will be determined through a DNA test with results expected in the coming weeks.Īrtificial insemination is a relatively rare procedure for elephants – this is the first time it has been successfully used at the Columbus zoo - attempts to artificially inseminate elephants are becoming more frequent in an effort to bolster the numbers of the endangered animals. Thursday, zoo spokeswoman Elizabeth Zimmerman said. COLUMBUS The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is welcoming its first newborn elephant in nearly a decade, one made possible through the rarely-used process of.
The Asian elephant calf, whose gender has not been determined, was born at 3:09 a.m. The newborn Asian elephant calf is the first born at the Columbus Zoo as the result of artificial insemination. COLUMBUS – The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is welcoming its first newborn elephant in nearly a decade, one made possible through the rarely-used process of artificial insemination.
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