Asian Elephant Gives Birth to Adorable Calf | The Secret Life of the Zoo | Nature Bites

Amazing footage shows the birth of an Asian Elephant giving birth to its adorable calf!

From The Secret Life of the Zoo: This series gives viewers behind the scenes access to Chester Zoo's 21,000 animals and the people who work there. The zoo's keepers are interviewed in each episode about the various animals and incidents, whether it's orangutans escaping their enclosure or tigers getting into scraps. In this episode "Courtship of the Jaguars" Season 3 Episode 7: the Asian elephant, Sithami, gives birth to male calf, Aayu. Giraffe calf, Murchison, won't go outside, and a female Chameleon arrives from Paris.

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[alezot]

Unfortunately, Nandita and Aayu died in 2018 of Elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus (EEHV), an illness endemic in Asian elephants which primarily effects calves, is VERY fast-acting, and usually lethal even when detected and treated early on. Another calf, Indali, got sick in 2019 but lived, one of the few calves to survive the disease.
Chester Zoo is currently contributing in the development of a vaccine against EEHV, not only to protect zoo elephants, but their wild countreparts as well. Asian elephant are already Endangered, this disease is one of the many threats that puts their survival in jeopardy.

[ccharms]

When she kicked the new babies tryna be sneaky aww we all know what that feels like she is just a little jelly ❤❤

[onlyme-]

Kids they're all the same whatever species

[LexiWilliams-sl]

I love elephants
they are my fave animal

[Liz_]

Someone needs a time out!!! The babies are adorable 🥰

[quimleyofficial]

I want a little micro elephant to play with so much it hurts

[laurenurban]

I like how they all support the mother. That’s amazing. Cute that the, now, older baby was jealous and even kicked the new baby. That was funny. Mom, tired of the antics, finally pushes her away and slaps her with her trunk. I like to observe their discipline techniques. They’re very effective.

[xmenVicente]

Find it amazing how the other elephant stand side by side to protect the calf

[lbabytutorials]

I love how they all come together to wake the baby up

[Cee-mmhq]

❤❤❤🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘.s especially the babies are the best.

[indyreno]

Asian elephants are elephants that constitute the genus Elephas, they are an exclusively asiatic genus with only fourteen recognized species: the †Syrian Elephant (Elephas asurus), the Indian Elephant (Elephas indicus), the Sri Lanka Elephant (Elephas maximus), the †Chinese Elephant (Elephas rubridens), the †Falconer's Elephant (Elephas hysudricus), the †Flat-Headed Elephant (Elephas platycephalus), the Bangladeshi Elephant (Elephas bangladeshiensis), the Indochinese Elephant (Elephas vietnamensis), the Sumatran Elephant (Elephas sumatrensis), the †Javan Elephant (Elephas sondaicus), the †Blora Elephant (Elephas hysudrindicus), the Bornean Elephant (Elephas borneensis), the †Beyer's Elephant (Elephas beyeri), and the †Sulawesi Dwarf Elephant (Elephas celebensis), asian elephants originated from Southwest Asia following their split between the mammoths (genus Mammuthus).

[KamKos]

Elephants are beautiful :-)
great movie :D :D
Best regards from Wrocław
Kamil 🙂

[colleencurnew]

Where do you come up with the names for them

[christineMaccallum-uoqx]

Nature is special and different types and other stories and facts and interesting family happy cutie and more so listen for more information enjoy ❤️😗

[AllieThePrettyGator]

1:54 even Aung Bo is scolding his daughter

[louisestevenson]

We reach our peak energy hyper zoom at 5 then its a slow decent

[Patricia-vdxh]

Horrible that they are in a zoo without the true life of an elephant. They should be at a reserve.

[linda]

While others are commenting on how cute the babies are, I'm sad that 3 generations are living in captivity.