{"id":600685,"date":"2026-04-23T01:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/600685\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T01:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:32:09","slug":"asian-elephant-calf-makes-her-public-debut-at-dcs-national-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/600685\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian elephant calf makes her public debut at DC&#8217;s National Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The hottest new celebrity in Washington, D.C., is Asian elephant calf Linh Mai, who made her public debut Wednesday at the <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalzoo.si.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Smithsonian\u2019s National Zoo<\/a>. She is the first elephant calf born at the zoo in 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>Mother elephant Nhi Linh gave birth to Linh Mai on Feb. 2 after nearly two years of pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>Robbie Clark, the zoo\u2019s elephant manager, said, \u201cLinh Mai is a hoot, she\u2019s a fantastic little elephant to get to know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s very curious,\u201d Clark added. \u201cShe\u2019s learning how to be quite playful with the enrichment and the environment that she\u2019s living in, and she\u2019s confident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Asian elephants at the National Zoo live in an expansive area called Elephant Trails, which contains outdoor walkways and pools. Fans who can\u2019t visit Washington can check out Linh Mai on the zoo\u2019s <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalzoo.si.edu\/webcams\/elephants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">elephant cam<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The hottest new celebrity in Washington, D.C., is Asian elephant calf Linh Mai, who made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1147,3506,3505,10557,793,261308,79,36124,795,800,201],"class_list":["post-600685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-dc-wire","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-elephants","tag-general-news","tag-robbie-clark","tag-science","tag-smithsonian-institution","tag-u-s-news","tag-washington-news","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}