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Article: A JUMBO BABY PROJECT ELEPHANT INSEMINATION: 2 GERMANS, AN ULTRASOUND AND A VERY LONG WAIT.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- March 2, 2005
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Byline: TOM PAULSONP-I reporter
It is no small feat to artificially impregnate an elephant.
The basics of artificial insemination may be routine, but a glance into the elephant house at the Woodland Park Zoo yesterday evening should have been enough to convince anyone that this super-sized branch of animal husbandry poses some uniquely huge problems.
The object of this attention is Chai, the zoo's 26-year-old Asian elephant. She is already a mother, having given birth to Hansa, now 4, by natural means. But this required the stress of shipping her off to a zoo in Missouri, where she encountered some hostility - and a few scars and chunks ...