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Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo
- downboots 9mo agoAt last someone addresses it
- tantalor 9mo agoSsshhh we don't talk about it
- usagisushi 9mo agoThere is room for the elephant.
- dennis_jeeves2 9mo agoThere room in the elephant.
- fuzzythinker 9mo agoDirect source with better readability and many pictures: https://nationalzoo.si.edu/news/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-and-conservation-biology-institute https://nationalzoo.si.edu/news/female-asian-elephant-calf-b... And even more pictures and info on Asian elephants: https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/news/get-know-herd-asian-elephants-living-zoo https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/news/get-know-herd-asian-...
- Valodim 9mo ago> [this individual] will help strengthen the genetic diversity of the Asian elephant population in North America and around the world. I'm happy for them that there is now a calf after a long time, but this sentence doesn't read as hopeful as the author probably intended
- uxhacker 9mo agoSo there are now 55000 and 1 Asian elephants*. I don’t understand the newsworthiness of having an extra Asian elephant joining the other 15000 Asian elephants in captivity. Wild Asian elephants roam between 100km2 to 1500km2. This elephant will spend a life confined to just how many square km’s?
- assaddayinh 9mo agoThe conquest for utopian perfection is the enemy of all good things. In the wild she would be poached, hunted and ground dow into medieval medicine, while contained to ever more little islands of wild. Please god free us from those who want to burn the bakery, because they think tomorrow it will rain manna from the heavens. No curse us greater then a rampant idealist, unwilling to sense reality. PS: Why not have pragmatic solutions where there are elephant days where the herd to roam in a park?
- riedel 9mo agoWhile I totally agree, the underlying conflict is that Zoos over use the argument of preservation these days. On the other end they certainly have the need to stay entertainment venues, a conflict which they seldomly address. Recently there was a obviously necessary mass culling of baboons in the Nuremberg zoo which shows some of the controversy [1] [1] https://www.greenmemag.com/animals/the-nuremberg-zoo-controversy-a-critical-look-at-animal-management/ https://www.greenmemag.com/animals/the-nuremberg-zoo-controv...
- assaddayinh 9mo agoThey could have hunting preserves, basically areas sharedby predators and prey similar to nature as enrichment, but that would be cruelty for the cityZens. Im argueing against nature preserves in poorer countries, where western nations deluded citizens pay to keep a piece of nature which are basically mirages of "intactness" in economic good times, vanishing from the earth entirely in economic bad times. Which the very same proponents usually argue for with degrowth arguments.
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- assimpleaspossi 9mo agoThere have been seven Asian elephants born at the St Louis Zoo since 1992.
- eleveriven 9mo agoThe key difference is that births like those (and this one) aren't about "we need more elephants," they're about which elephants survive and reproduce
- assimpleaspossi 9mo agoWell, "[Raja] was the first elephant ever born at the Saint Louis Zoo and is considered a St. Louis legend. Male Asian elephant Raja, born amid fanfare nearly 31 years ago on Dec. 27, 1992, has three daughters at the Zoo..." https://stlzoo.org/news/elephant-news https://stlzoo.org/news/elephant-news
- eleveriven 9mo agoI do appreciate that they're explicit about why this matters (genetic diversity, SSP, long-term conservation work) instead of just treating it as zoo PR
- vscode-rest 9mo agoEverything you listed is zoo PR, just for a different target audience. (that doesn’t make it bad)
- kelipso 9mo agoWhenever someone mentions Asian elephants in American zoos, I remember my visit to Columbus zoo, where they treated the Asian elephants like African elephants. Very dry environment, very little water, feeding them dry hay, just absolutely atrocious treatment.