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Big Baby in Bedfordshire. After a 22 month pregnancy, Woburn Safari Park have welcomed a female baby Asian elephant. Born to mum ‘Damini’ and fathered by ‘Raja’, the calf stands at three foot tall but already weighs 122kg. Terry Shelton, Head of Elephants, commented: “Damini has taken to motherhood fantastically. She has been very relaxed, getting to know her newborn with gentle trunk touches whilst her new aunts, Chandrika and Yu-Zin, are able to watch the newborn take its first steps and suckle from Damini.” Currently without a name, the Safari Park are running a competition on their website for you to name the calf. Classified as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of threatened species, the population of Asian elephants is estimated to be just 40,000 to 50,000 in the wild. Their numbers have declined by at least 50 per cent over the last three generations due to habitat loss, degradation and fragmentation. Photo Credit: Woburn Safari Park
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 14:00:00 +0000

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