Sunday, December 2, 2012

Thonglaw's Tragic Family Tree


 Portland Zoo  1967



Elephants are dying out in America's zoos
seattletimes.com

Zoos' efforts to preserve and propagate elephants have largely failed, both in Seattle and nationally...



3 comments:

Tom Wilds said...

Are you aware of the female born in Portland Friday?

John Herriott said...

Seems to me that starting with breeder Thonglaw that Portland was the first with a very successful breeding program that has existed over a number of years. john herriott

Wade G. Burck said...

John Milton,
What is a "successful" breeding program? Getting them on the ground, or raising them to maturity and breeding them?

Wade