Twin elephants were born two weeks ago at Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse, and the public got to greet them Friday, November 11, 2022. N. Scott Trimble | [email protected]
Syracuse, N.Y. — As two of Syracuse’s beloved Asian elephants headed outside Friday morning at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo, there was a buzz in the air from the ᴄ?owɗ gathering in the viewing area.
Underneath a female named Mali jogged a tiny pair of fuzzy babies, trying to keep up.
Tiny is relative of course; each of the baby elephants weighs over 215 pounds.
It’s the first known successful birth of twin elephants in the United States, said zoo Director Ted Fox.
“There probably was a slight chance that you’d see two trunks, but it would have to be at the eхαᴄᴛ right time,” he explained.
In hindsight, it’s probably for the best that they didn’t know a second was on its way.
“Would we have done anything different? I think the veterinary staff would’ve been more пe?ⱱoυ?. Every half hour that would have passed they would gotten more and more пe?ⱱoυ?,” Fox said.
Fox said there have been three other twin elephant pregnancies in the United States. But they either resulted in a miscarriage, still births or a calf who didn’t survive due to complications after birth.
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