{"id":196062,"date":"2025-12-22T08:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/196062\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T08:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:14:07","slug":"former-auckland-zoo-elephant-that-moved-across-tasman-to-have-calves-has-stillbirth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/196062\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Auckland Zoo elephant that moved across Tasman to have calves has stillbirth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ<\/p>\n<p>22 Dec, 2025 05:31 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Anjalee enjoying a dust bath at Taronga Western Plains Zoo, Dubbo in 2023 after moving from Auckland Zoo. Photo \/ Taronga Western Plains Zoo<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">An elephant that moved from New Zealand to Australia to have calves has had a stillbirth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Auckland Zoo elephant Anjalee moved to Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo, New South Wales in 2022, in the hopes she could breed with other elephants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         In a<br \/>\n         social media post on Sunday, Taronga Western Plains Zoo revealed that despite keepers trying their best to help Anjalee through labour, she gave birth to a stillborn calf on Thursday.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAnjalee and the female herd are doing well, with Thong Dee, Porntip and Kanlaya staying close to her side,\u201d the zoo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 22 Dec, 2025 05:31 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2840,51,20164,5732,2740,6871,305,32033,111,43,139,69,41332,2224,1361,61,3651],"class_list":["post-196062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-across","tag-auckland","tag-calves","tag-elephant","tag-former","tag-has","tag-have","tag-moved","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-stillbirth","tag-tasman","tag-that","tag-to","tag-zoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}