New Baby Elephant posing for photos

STORY:
She's not yet a week old, and is still a bit unsteady on her feet, but she's already posing for photos. This baby elephant is the newest arrival at Berlin's animal park, the fourteenth pachyderm to be born there since 1998.

The director of Berlin's animal park and zoo says this was a very quick birth - and only took twelve minutes. The keepers are still deciding on the baby's name.

[Bernhard Blaskiewitz, Director, Berlin Zoo]:
"We're looking for something that sounds Asian, as it's an Asian elephant. Both parents, mother and father, come from Burma. It's the mother's fourth baby and she's doing a great job bringing it up, there are no problems."

The baby's mother Kewa, is 25-years-old.

For the time being, mother and daughter are spending time alone together, before returning to the rest of the herd.

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