{"id":98328,"date":"2025-10-26T04:05:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T04:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/98328\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T04:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T04:05:15","slug":"baby-elephant-born-at-columbus-zoo-in-ohio-is-its-2nd-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/98328\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby elephant born at Columbus Zoo in Ohio is its 2nd this year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 is so the pair gets uninterrupted bonding time and the zoo\u2019s 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

Phoebe has another son, Frankie, who was born in 2021 and lives at the Columbus Zoo. Its herd also includes a 23-year-old female and a 24-year-old male, as well as 16-year-old Sunny and her calf Rita Jean, born 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

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This story has been corrected to replace inaccurate information about Phoebe\u2019s offspring and relationships to other elephants at the zoo. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"POWELL, Ohio (AP) \u2014 The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium has welcomed its second baby elephant in a single…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2594,37492,7017,14450,33337,122,85,46,1129,9861,55186,7021,65393,141,917,386],"class_list":["post-98328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-cincinnati","tag-columbus","tag-elephants","tag-environmental-conservation","tag-general-news","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jwd-evergreen","tag-national-parks","tag-oh-state-wire","tag-ohio","tag-rita-jean","tag-science","tag-u-s-news","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}