So I am finally updating this blog, almost a week after the second baby was born. That Friday morning, my cell rang at 5:40, I looked at the number, and was afraid to answer it. With the long gestation, some of us were a little nervous. But I listened to the message, and the news [...]
Archive for July, 2008
One BIG Happy Elephant Family
July 31, 2008
Waiting For Baby # 2
July 22, 2008
No, this is not the second African elephant baby. This is Angelina, the Friday morning after her July 9th birth. Uncle Willie, aka Elephant Manager Willie Theison, showing me how she would come to him when he called her over. Willie tells me she is taller than Victoria was at birth–37 inches, to Vic’s 33. [...]
Large Happenings-Elephants and Steelers
July 10, 2008
FINALLY!!!!!!! A picture of the new baby. She is just minutes old here, and I am told her mother, Nan, is just being wonderful with her new offspring. Willie Theison, Barbara Baker, Amos Morris, Connie George and Tracy Gray all have been putting in over 32 hours without sleep, waiting for this beautiful pachyderm package [...]
TWO VERY PREGNANT ELEPHANTS!
July 5, 2008
Saturday, July 5, 2008
That is Nan. From this vantage point, you can see just how pregnant she is! One of the keepers told me that her blood levels the last several nights indicate she should give birth soon. But as I said yesterday, she and Moja are still not “over”-due.
Moja is at about 668 [...]
Growing up Tiger And Baby Elephant Wait
July 4, 2008
Ahhhh. A dog’s life. But this lab, Bella, has had a furry, sharp-clawed wrinkle thrown into her life of late. Bella belongs to the lead carnivore keeper at the Pittsburgh Zoo, Kathy Suthard. And Kathy has been taking the new Amur tiger cub home every night. The cub, now two months old and weighing 13 [...]
Waiting For The Elephant Babies
July 1, 2008
I got back from vacation, fully expecting to find two brand new elephant babies—and nothing?! The Sunday and Monday night before I left, I joined the diligent docents to do the baby watch. That entails staying up for hours, watching a flat screened TV monitor of the elephant, waiting to see if she shows any [...]
