Lisa’s Nearing Delivery of 200-Pound Calf
Lisa the elephant is a little cranky, but her zookeepers say that’s to be expected.
The Oakland Zoo’s African elephant, 22 months pregnant, is carrying a 200-pound calf. She’s due to deliver it within a month.
The zoo’s elephant program has been hit with a series of tragedies over the past decade. Smokey, the father of Lisa’s calf, died in March of unknown causes.
Lisa and another elephant named Donna both lost their babies to a salmonella infection in 1998. Lisa’s first baby died 11 months after birth in 1996 after contracting the elephant herpes virus.
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