{"id":236615,"date":"2025-10-24T03:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/236615\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T03:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:30:07","slug":"columbus-zoo-welcomes-second-asian-elephant-calf-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/236615\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbus Zoo welcomes second Asian elephant calf this year"},"content":{"rendered":"

POWELL, Ohio — POWELL, Ohio (AP) \u2014 The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium has welcomed its second baby elephant<\/a> in a single calendar year for the first time in its nearly 100-year history, a milestone that the Ohio attraction is touting as a win for conservation.<\/p>\n

Thirty-eight-year-old Phoebe gave birth to the male Asian elephant calf at 10:41 p.m. Tuesday. The 222-pound (100-kilogram) offspring is not yet on view to the public. That’s so the pair gets uninterrupted bonding time and the zoo’s animal care and conservation medicine team can provide round-the-clock monitoring as the baby begins to stand, nurse and explore his surroundings.<\/p>\n

The calf\u2019s father, Sabu, lives at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. They were paired through a national zoo initiative that aims to support healthy, genetically-diverse populations of threatened and endangered species in professional care. <\/p>\n

Although there have been recent signs of hope<\/a> for Asian elephants in the wild, habitat degradation and the challenges of maintaining genetic diversity are among reasons they remain endangered.<\/p>\n

The baby joins Phoebe’s already large family, which includes another male and two female offspring. Her daughter Sunny, who is 16, gave birth to a female calf named Rita Jean four months ago.<\/p>\n

The zoo said it will continue to share updates on public viewing opportunities, naming plans and other baby milestones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"POWELL, Ohio — POWELL, Ohio (AP) \u2014 The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium has welcomed its second baby elephant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[141840,1313,4225,64,63,27531,112869,482,15031,128,488,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-236615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-141840","9":"tag-animals","10":"tag-article","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-elephants","14":"tag-environmental-conservation","15":"tag-general-news","16":"tag-national-parks","17":"tag-science","18":"tag-u-s-news","19":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}