Hello everyone, I'm Mac So, a zoo photographer. I specialize in animal portraits, and today I would like to introduce you to the Asian elephants at Sapporo Maruyama Zoo through my work.
Four Asian elephants from Myanmar arrived at the Sapporo Maruyama Zoo in 2018. The environment surrounding wild Asian elephants is not favorable; their population has been decreasing due to habitat destruction caused by deforestation, land clearing, and overhunting for tusks, medicine, and other uses. As a result, they are currently listed as an endangered species.
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The birth rate of Asian elephants in captivity is said to be about 0.7% worldwide, which makes breeding very difficult. However, a baby elephant was born last year and turned one year old on August 19 this year.
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The baby elephant weighed about 90 kg at birth but now weighs 605 kg and is growing up well. His name is Tao, which means “brilliance” in Myanmar, the language of his mother country.
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