ITS A BOY! Shanti and Baby Baylor Doing Fine at the Houston Zoo

After a pregnancy lasting almost 23 months, Shanti, a 19-year-old Asian elephant, delivered a healthy 348-pound male calf Tuesday morning at the Houston Zoos McNair Asian Elephant Habitat. The calf has been named Baylor by the Zoos elephant care team in recognition of the unprecedented and ongoing advances made by Baylor College of Medicines science team to significantly reduce the threat of a potentially lethal elephant herpes virus.
Shanti began exhibiting signs of labor around 10:30 Monday night. Attended by the Houston Zoos elephant care team and assisted by the Zoos veterinary staff, Shanti delivered the baby at 9:32 a.m. on Tuesday, May 4.

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[hmalonepassion]

Help from a Lactation Consultant and nursing in public without a cover! :) Now it's time for humans to be so open!

[ZooVisitorMM]

Oh ... how wonderful. Congratulations!

And thank you for continuing to exhibit elephants, too. They have a very good life at your zoo. And visitors who see them will learn to love elephants the same way I did as a child - by seeing them, by hearing them, even by smelling them, right in front of me, in real life.

That is the only way to inspire a lasting interest in wildlife conservation.

[Baneio]

COOL!!! ONE MORE little elephant!!!

[melshane23]

Baylor is very Cute! Was he in a Harness for a reason?? Or was it just to help him stand up.?

[gigi1317girl]

he's so cute1