FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The second elephant calf in two weeks has been born at a California zoo.
African elephant Amahle gave birth Monday morning, according to the Fresno Chaffee Zoo. The birth came 10 days after Amahle’s mom, Nolwazi, gave birth to male calf.
The new additions are the first elephants born at the zoo, about 150 miles southeast of San Francisco, which has embarked on a program to breed elephants in the hope that they can be seen by zoogoers in years to come.
“To have two healthy calves is a historic milestone,” Jon Forrest Dohlin, the zoo’s chief executive, said in a statement Tuesday. “We cannot wait for the public to see the new additions to our herd and share in our excitement.”