A male elephant-Asian cub, weighing 158 kg, was born in the Selvagens Elephant Valley, Yunnan province, southwest China. This birth set a record for the newborn elephant, being the heaviest already recorded on the site. According to the treatise Zhou Fangyi, the animal raised alone only seven minutes after birth, and breastfed in an hour and 35 minutes. The elephant is growing healthy, and moves under the protection of the herd. The gestation pe…
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A male elephant-Asian cub, weighing 158 kg, was born in the Selvagens Elephant Valley, Yunnan province, southwest China. This birth set a record for the newborn elephant, being the heaviest already recorded on the site. According to the treatise Zhou Fangyi, the animal raised alone only seven minutes after birth, and breastfed in an hour and 35 minutes. The elephant is growing healthy, and moves under the protection of the herd. The gestation pe…