Making baby elephants

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• Woodland Park Zoo
• Mike Waller
• Darin Collins
• Zoos and Aquariums
• Wildlife

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But there's another big difference. A female elephant calf is one of the rarest, most prized additions to a zoo collection. A male giraffe, especially a common reticulated giraffe like this, is a figurative white elephant. Mahali's last son is now five years old and getting too big to move easily. Woodland Park has been trying to find him a new home for about two years. "There's not a zoo we can place him in at this time," says Collins.

Meanwhile, Collins says, the infant gorilla who was failing and taken from her mother three months ago is "doing really well" under intensive human care—and being placed with the other gorillas for a little while each day so she'll know she's one of them. E.S.