{"id":430909,"date":"2026-08-12T17:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/430909\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T17:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:54:10","slug":"watch-san-diego-zoo-safari-park-celebrates-world-elephant-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/430909\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: San Diego Zoo Safari Park celebrates World Elephant Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aug. 12 (UPI) — The San Diego Zoo Safari Park is celebrating World Elephant Day with a special look at the African savanna elephants living in its Elephant Valley.<\/p>\n

The park shared a video of 12,000-pound male elephant Sdudla splashing around Elephant Valley’s watering hole while the herd’s females take dust baths in the background.\n<\/p>\n

The video also includes footage of Sdudla taking a walk on land and video of the elephants interacting with each other.<\/p>\n

The footage was released to coincide with World Elephant Day on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The San Diego Zoo’s YouTube channel is also kicking off its “Meet the Herd” series<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance has been doing conservation work in Northern Kenya for over a decade. The SDZWA’s activities include helping the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary fund a mobile veterinary unit that performs crucial care for orphaned elephants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 12 (UPI) — The San Diego Zoo Safari Park is celebrating World Elephant Day with a special…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2113,7761,3554,74,76,75,7760],"class_list":["post-430909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-animals","tag-funny","tag-odd","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}