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Elephant Baby: Grand Entrance
Welcome, little girl!The stork arrived with a big bundle of joy at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, delivering a female African elephant calf at 3:39 a.m. today! The 205-pound calf and her mother, Swazi,...
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Welcome, Little Girl!
We look forward to watching our newest elephant grow!Elephant keeper Weston must have the magic touch: he’s been on a few 24-hour night-watch shifts here at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park and has been...
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Elephant Shaba: Introductions
Mary, left, and Shaba It has been over a month now since we began introductions with elephants Shaba and Mary at the San Diego Zoo’s Elephant Odyssey (see post Shaba’s Next Step). The progress has been...
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You May Call Her Qinisa
Little elephant Qinisa is one cute girl! You can stop calling her baby girl or not! But if you want to call the Safari Park’s female African elephant calf, who was born on August 28, with her official...
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Elephant Ranchipur: Healing Nicely
Ranchipur enjoys a cleansing spray of water. For those of you who have visited the San Diego Zoo lately and not seen our magnificent male Asian elephant, Ranchipur…well, he had to go into our Special...
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Quick Qinisa Update
Qinisa on her first day of life. Our newest African elephant calf, Qinisa, continues to grow at a normal rate. Her weight is now 330 pounds (150 kilograms). She has been playing a lot with half brother...
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Elephant Names
Qinisa at one day old. One of our Elephant Cam viewers asked if our newest elephant calf, Qinisa, knows her name yet. Name recognition depends on the individual animal and the frequency of...
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Elephant Treat Time
An elephant play session.One of our Elephant Cam viewers, Erin, mentioned that one of the best times to watch is when we keepers walk along the edge of the main yard with our buckets full of tasty...
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Elephant Shaba Meets the Girls
The elephants of Elephant Odyssey It has been almost a year since Shaba made her trip from Reid Park Zoo in Tucson, Arizona (see post Elephant Moves) to her new home in the San Diego Zoo’s Elephant...
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Early Mornings at Elephants
Vusmusi After doing 24-hour watches for each calf born to our African elephant herd at the Safari Park, we keepers have had the opportunity to watch a lot of early morning behavior from all the...
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Elephant Calves Update
A mud hole can be fun, too! Our youngest elephant, Qinisa, is 10 months old and already weighs 694 pounds (315 kilograms). She is very playful and often instigates play with the other calves at the San...
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Elephants Mabu and Family
Here’s Mabu enjoying some beet pulp at his home in Tucson. I just got back from spending four days in Tucson with the Reid Park Zoo staff and our five African elephants who moved there from the San...
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African Elephants in Botswana
Elephants eat and drink along the Chobe River in the Chobe National Park, Botswana. I just returned home after spending two weeks in Botswana with Mike Chase, the Henderson Endowed Research Fellow...
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Keeping Cool, Elephant Style
Update: Macembe enjoys the mud bog. The San Diego Zoo Safari Park’s African elephants are very creative in the summer as they beat the heat. There are pools in both yards that the elephants swim in...
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Elephant Khosi and Her Tusk
Neepo and big sister Khosi spend a relaxing afternoon at the Safari Park after her procedure. Today, August 29, 2013, Khosi, a 6-year-old African elephant at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, had a...
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First Birthday for Qinisa
Qinisa explores her birthday treats with her wonderful trunk. On August 28, 2013, as African elephant Swazi and her family came over from the west yard through the channel, they saw something different...
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Khosi is Queen for the Day
We celebrate Khosi’s 7th birthday! Khosi the elephant’s name is short for “heart of a queen,” and yesterday, September 11, 2013, her keepers put together a celebration truly fit for royalty. In honor...
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7th Birthday for Khosi
Khosi makes short work of her iced treat! There was a flurry of activity as the Safari Park elephant keepers were setting up for our daily Keeper Talk on September 11. Branches of ficus were put around...
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Elephant Msholo: Day & Night
The mighty and majestic Msholo is a wonderful part of the Safari Park’s African elephant herd. Successfully managing a large herd of African elephants is an ever-changing and challenging task for us...
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Update on Elephant Vusmusi
Vusmusi takes a stroll. As I mentioned in my previous post, Elephant Msholo: Day & Night, our oldest calf, Vusmusi, loves to play fight through the cables/chains/gates/barriers. He’ll even...
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