{"id":445155,"date":"2026-08-27T14:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/445155\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:16:08","slug":"fresno-chaffee-zoo-to-celebrate-elephant-calves-birthdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/445155\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Chaffee Zoo to celebrate elephant calves birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Two of Fresno Chaffee Zoo\u2019s youngest elephants are about to hit a milestone birthday.<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno Chaffee Zoo says it is celebrating Thando and Davu, who are both turning two this August. <\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/two-people-wanted-after-xbox-and-speaker-stolen-from-visalia-walmart-theft-crime-stolen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Two people wanted after Xbox and speaker stolen from Visalia Walmart<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zoo officials said the calves have brought joy to staff and guests during their first two years.<\/p>\n<p>When they were born, the calves weighed 200 pounds. <\/p>\n<p>Now, they have grown into strong, healthy elephants that weigh 1,500 pounds.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Thando (Photo: Fresno Chaffee Zoo)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"364\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ceff03c3-e249-4973-b04f-481d0ef2e38f-Thando.jpg\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thando (Photo: Fresno Chaffee Zoo)<\/p>\n<p>People can see more about how the calves have grown on the zoo\u2019s social media channels.<\/p>\n<p>To mark the birthdays, the zoo is offering a special-edition virtual adopt package for a limited time. <\/p>\n<p>The zoo said the ZooBorn virtual adoption helps support the care of the calves and all the animals at the zoo.<\/p>\n<p>More information and purchases are available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/fcz.org\/zooborns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fresno Chaffee Zoo website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Two of Fresno Chaffee Zoo\u2019s youngest elephants are about to hit a milestone birthday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-445155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445155","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=445155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}