mobanmarketShe is latest addition to the elephant family at a zoo in Vienna, and is less than a week old. But she has yet to be named.
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The calf, conceived through artificial insemination, was born at Schönbrunn Zoo in the Austrian capital.
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The father is an elephant at South Africa’s Phinda Game Reserve.
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Now, the Schönbrunn zoo managers are letting the public name the elephant calf. The name will be decided by public poll.
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Among the options being considered: “Dunia”, meaning “world” in Swahili; “Kibali”, a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; and “Phinda”, the name of the reserve where her father resides.
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Zoo managers said the calf, who weighed 90 kg at birth, is doing well.
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Tiergarten Schönbrunn, or “Vienna Zoo”, is a located on the grounds of the famous Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria. Founded as an imperial menagerie in 1752, it is the oldest continuously operating zoo in the world.
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