Mexico: Baby elephant, whose birth was live-streamed, named Zoom after video chat app

Baby Elephant whose birth was live-streamed by a safari park in Mexico named ‘Zoom’ after video chat app launched amid coronavirus pandemic for virtual communication is being planned to be released in wild in Africa in later sts of life. Born in Puebla, souast of Mexican capital, baby elephant is sixth sibling born in a herd of elephants rescued from poachers in Namibia nearly 8 years ago, according to reports.  

Director of Africam Safari, where calf has taken birth and was live-streamed, Frank Carlos Camacho was quoted as saying in a news ncy report that park aimed at raising calf appropriately and n returning it in wild in Africa once it was capable of surviving on its own. He insisted that wild animals belonged in wild, and authorities in park intended to send it to Africa among herd of similar origin. It was only for a short duration that calf will be held captive in limited in park. 

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Pandemic made job 'difficult'

However, Camacho stressed that COVID-19 pandemic has made job “difficult” as tourism industry suffered a major backlash in wake of pandemic.  Zoom was witnessed playing with or elephants in safari park, as per reports. Camacho reportedly said that  birth of an elephant was extremely rare to be ever witnessed by humans. He added, that birth was useful for gauging scientific information, measuring times, fluid volumes, among or factors. Furr, he insisted that park has set its goal and aims for it despite current scenario.  

In an attempt to prevent worldwide poaching of ivory and or parts of elephant, on eve of World Elephant Day, Singapore destroyed over 8.8 tonnes of seized ivory. It included contraband tusks obtained from more than 300 African elephants, as per reports. Singapore also launched a Center for Wildlife Forensics to identify specimens involved in illegal wildlife trade of Elephants. 

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