Zoos /​8560 Views

Three ele­phant calves were born within ten weeks time at Dublin Zoo in 2014. As you can see Kavi, Ashoka and Samiya are doing fine. The herd of Asi­atic ele­phants seems to be a sta­ble har­mo­nious group although one of the moth­ers expresses some dis­turb­ing repet­i­tive behav­iour. The group is led by matri­arch Bern­har­dine, the first ever born ele­phant in a Dutch zoo (16.06.1984). She was also the first ele­phant born to par­ents who were born in cap­tiv­ity in an Euro­pean zoo as well. The ele­phants share their enclo­sure with black­buck, and it is obvi­ous that at least one of the ele­phants dis­likes the male blackbuck.

Related Videos

Goal: 7000 tigers in the wild

Tiger range countries map

Tiger map” (CC BY 2.5) by Sander­son et al., 2006.

about zoos and their mis­sion regard­ing breed­ing endan­gered species, nature con­ser­va­tion, bio­di­ver­sity and edu­ca­tion, which of course relates to the evo­lu­tion of species.
Fol­low me on: