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Male Indian Elephant Calf Nayan - Born 18/07/2010

Male Indian Elephant Calf Nayan - Born 18/07/2010
SMR, 21 Jul 2010
    • SMR
      Chester\'s latest Indian elephant calf (Elephas maximus indicus), a yet to be named male born 18/07/2010. Photographed 20/07/2010.
    • JaxElephant
      Awww, the new baby is so cute.
    • Jabiru96
      He looks different to the babies born over here
    • Maisie
      Superb photo! He's lovely, and looks really healthy :)
    • SMR
      The calf has been named Nayan, which means "eye" in Hindi. Why... I'm not sure.
    • Jabiru96
      Nayan...interesting. Was it a public naming competition or did the keepers name him?
    • SMR
      Zoo keepers and Nandita Hazarika, who is the manager of the Assam Haathi Project. See: Chester Zoo - Elephant keepers name new addition to the Zoo

      The name of Janya for the zoo's last new elephant, was selected via a public poll. Janya spends all of her time away from the rest of the herd. ;)
    • Jabiru96
      Cool, thanks. I can see he is very different from the elephants over here, but that might be because he has dirt all over him! What subspecies are the ones in Chester and here in Taronga, if anyone knows. Thanks :)
    • taun
      I have just realised what you are on about, really did confuse me for a while! :eek:
    • Javan Rhino
      I think Chester's are Indian (I think that was what Zootierliste listed them as), not sure about Taronga though sorry.

      Also, am I right in thinking that Janya is the bronze elephant in the city centre? If so, it had me thrown for a minute :p
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