INDONESIA: New-born male Sumatran baby elephant is the latest addition to safari park

Record ID: 185167

  • Title: INDONESIA: New-born male Sumatran baby elephant is the latest addition to safari park
  • Date: 7th January 2011
  • Summary: BOGOR, WEST JAVA PROVINCE, INDONESIA (JANUARY 6, 2011) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF ANIMAL HOSPITAL ENTRANCE TO NURSING ENCLOSURE MALE BABY SUMATRAN ELEPHANT NAMED JANUAR WITH HIS MOTHER BABY ELEPHANT WITH HIS MOTHER, KARTINI JANUAR SUCKLING MOTHER ELEPHANT KARTINI EATING CORN MULYONO, ELEPHANT KEEPER, WATCHING JANUAR AND KARTINI (SOUNDBITE) (Bahasa Indonesia) MULYONO, ELEPHANT KEEPER SAYING: "The elephant was born on January 3. A half an hour after he was born he could stand and an hour later he could find his mother breast and start suckling, that is his natural instinct" KEEPERS MEASURING BABY ELEPHANT VARIOUS OF KEEPERS MEASURING BABY ELEPHANT WITH MEASURING TAPE VARIOUS OF KEEPERS TAKING DOWN DATA (SOUNDBITE) (Bahasa Indonesia) MULYONO, ELEPHANT KEEPER SAYING: "The park now has 43 elephants in the exhibition area and adding Januar and his mother there are 45 Sumatran elephants" JANUAR JANUAR AND HIS MOTHER KARTINI AT NURSING CAGE VARIOUS SUMATRAN ELEPHANTS AT EXHIBIT CORNER A CAR STOPPING TO WATCH ELEPHANTS VARIOUS SUMATRAN ELEPHANTS
  • Embargoed: 22nd January 2011 12:00
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  • Location: Indonesia, Indonesia
  • Country: Indonesia
  • Topics: Light / Amusing / Unusual / Quirky
  • Reuters ID: LVABKZCTOYZ0GVZ99KC247ZAR3X9
  • Story Text: Indonesia Safari Park welcomed a new addition to its herd of Sumatran elephants on Monday (January 3), with the arrival of a male baby elephant.
    The birth of the baby is a success for the zoo and conservation activities of Sumatran elephants whose natural habitat is shrinking due to deforestation. The park started with 20 elephants in 1985 but the number has more than doubled now to 45.
    "The elephant was born on January 3. A half an hour after he was born he could stand and an hour later he could find his mother breast and start suckling, that is his natural instinct," Mulyono, an elephant keeper at the park, who, like many Indonesians go by one name.
    The calf was named "Januar" after the month he was born in.
    "The park now has 43 elephants in the exhibition area and adding Januar and his mother there are 45 Sumatran elephants," added Mulyono The World Wildlife Fund has said Sumatran elephants, a subspecies of the Asian elephant found only in Indonesia, are threatened with extinction.
    The group said the elephant population on the island has fallen by about 35 percent, from an estimated 2,800-5,000 in 1992, to 2,400-2,800 in 2007.
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