taronga's elephants pregnant already » Taronga Zoo

17-02-2007

That makes good sense if the provenance/origin of the animals is known, then its perfectly possible to continue with that line and make sure it remains pure. Also perhaps encourage other zoos to only breed from animals derived this pure stock too. The problems arise with all the racially mixed groups which have been in zoos for many years, -trying to unravel their ancestry or exchange them for animals of known race seems an impossible task to me.