Taronga's Elephants and other news!!! » Taronga Zoo

11-12-2007

im going to the zoo on monday, if hes on display i might go and see him< very very Cute!!!!!!

12-02-2008

i just put this in a nother thread but people can chose which is most sutible but Zoo stays mum over jumbo pregnancy - National - smh.com.au

anyone think theres any truth in this??? zoopro any word from you?:P

12-02-2008

Moi?

My guess is the key is in one sentence in the article "It is understood the zoo was considering whether to begin a program of artificial insemination.". Probably this is based on the fact that Biosecurity Australia have just released the draft policy on importation of elephant semen.

But then what would I know?......

12-02-2008

a newspaper article isnt the best starting point is it?
for starters they cant count....according to the pic taronga has four elephants. and the reference to the 1400kg weight gain-------isnt that thong dee? the street elephant who was underweight anyway?

12-02-2008

i totally agree that the article is flawed and doesnt really say anything that we didnt already know, the ele puting on weight was in the annual report and we have known for ages that AI was always going to be an option i just found it interesting that the paper would run with this story when it does seem to have so many flaws so either they know something we dont or they just figure elephants sell papers and its been a bit quite on the ele front latly

13-02-2008

well now the greens have jumped on the story
Outcry over pregnant underage elephant - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

but i wonder i they really do have 'leaked documents' or anything like that or ar just going on the paper rumors anyway it does kinda annoy me because they said that it was wrong to seperate gung from the girls and now they are saying its wrong that one could get pregnant! well thats what happens if you dont spilt boys and girls!!!

13-02-2008

so the elephants who would never breed in an australian zoo............and shouldnt have been seperated from each other (cow and bull)........may be breeding. and now taronga zoo is irresponsible for breeding animals which are impossible to breed and irresponsible because they were doing what the Greens said they should, but werent.
btw, what would the Greens know about elephants anyway? about as much as a zoobeat forum member

14-02-2008

no, lee rhinannon needs to learn to shut her trap unless she's going to talk about something she knows about.

i don't bloody vote greens so that can piss on about a bloodly elephant, i vote for them so they will put BIG environment issue on the agenda.

i expect the RSPCA to complain, but the greens should stick keep their noses out of it and stop conforming to the stereotype that all greens are a bunch of animal and tree-hugging vegetarians. it doesn't do the party any favours.

14-02-2008

BE PREPARED!

As we all know, young females of all species are often unsuccessful with their first baby/babies.
Now that Thong Dee is confirmed pregnant, I hope it's a success, or the Greens, RSPCA and all the other opponents of the elephant importation will love it and squeal loud and long.

I agree with you, patrick. The Greens could be so much more effective if they concentrated on issues of integrity rather than being a mob of nit-pickers.

As for the RSPCA, they should concentrate on REAL cruelty; there's plenty of that (i.e. factory farming in all its forms).

The rest of the Animal Lib. types are idealists but not realists.

14-02-2008

All I can do is shake my head in despair. As a member of the Green Party I want nothing to do with Lee Rhiannon, she has shown herself, time and time again to be an extremeist, ignorant of many issues and only seem to want to get her name in the papers.She certainly gives the Greens a bad name and seems to be associating herself more with PETA type issues than enviromental.

Please, please let all go well with this pregnancy

15-02-2008

yes i agree jay, i vote green all the way. not because i think they'll get in or even because even if they did, by some extraordinary miracle, that they would be the best party to run the country. i vote for them because i agree with most of their policies environmental or not, and more importantly because by giving them more seats we put pressure on the other parties to place environmental issues on the agenda. i'm very proud to say this attitude of mine has spread to almost all of my family and friends as well.

so, since i take my green party seriously - I HATE, I ABSOLUTELY HATE, when when the greens are linked to the stereotype, of the animal-libber, vegan, tree-hugging, jobless, stinky, whinging feral. okay so i hate ferals, i do. not just because i was totally almost became one when i was in my late teens but also because i think someone who "removes themselves from the disease of society man" doesn't have much of a right to comment on it. if your that bloody dedicated to the cause - get a job, cut your hair and put on a shirt so someone takes you seriously. if not, your just, fairly or unfairly, giving us greenies a bad name.

where was i? oh yeah Lee Rhiannnon. she's aligning herself with the animal libbers, and whilst animal liberation is in many cases a very worthwhile cause, its not what the green party is about. so yeah - she can shut up.

15-02-2008

Did Lee Rhiannon once work in a zoo?

15-02-2008

Yep, she used to be a keeper at Taronga.

(Biting the hand which formerly fed her.)

25-02-2008

And once again the plot thickens, who was it that said they had never heard of the elephants?
Doubts cast on elephants' origins - National - smh.com.au

25-02-2008

But in Elephants, young females seem far more likely to have an easy delivery and a safe birth than older females that haven't bred before. Her chances are therefore pretty good, I think.