Associated Press
SEATTLE – It’s a girl. A big one.
Chai, an Asian elephant at Woodland Park Zoo gave birth this morning to a 235-pound daughter, the first elephant birth at the 100-year-old Seattle zoo.
Chai completed the 22-month gestation with the delivery at 4:48 a.m. Zoo officials said the elephant exhibit would close until the bond between the mother and calf is established and Chai demonstrates she is comfortable as a mother.
Chai, 21, had been sent to the Dickerson Park Zoo in Springfield, Mo., in September 1998 for breeding with its bull, Onyx, and returned last fall.
The calf doesn’t have a name yet.
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