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peterbear Boechout, Antwerp
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Great news: after a pregnancy of 22 months (!) the Asian elephant Phyo Phyo has given birth to the first baby elephant born in Belgium. 
The little girl weighs about 100 kilos and both mother and daughter are doing fine.  She was born yesterday morning at 8.45 local time.
People have been following the pregnancy for months and everybody was praying that there would be no complications with the birth (which unfortunately often
happens with elephants).
The zoo had installed a webcam in Phyo Phyo, but the birth happened so sudden that they couldn't capture the actual birth.  You can see a video and some lovely photos of the little baby elephant on : www.baby-olifant.be.

Baby_elephant01.jpg  Baby_elephant.jpg

It feels so good that have some positive news in the media, doesn't it?

Hugs,

Peter

All Bear All Bear by Paula
Kent
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How lovely!  There's something quite magical about elephants isn't there?!  I love 'em!

katiecountrymouse1 KatieCountryBears
Bolton-le-sands, Carnforth
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Hi Peter,

What a tiny little ellie! :dance:
They are so cute at this age. :hug:
Thanks for the pictures. :photo:  :photo:
love kayx. bear_wub  bear_wub

Off The Paw Artist Bears by Lesley
East Neuk
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Awwwwwwwww  bear_wub  bear_wub  bear_wub  bear_wub  bear_wub  bear_wub  bear_wub  bear_wub  bear_wub  bear_wub  bear_wub

Carolyn Green Draffin Bears
Auckland New Zealand
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Hi Peter,

So lovely to hear a good news story thank you! Beautiful baby elephant.

I love elephants and for my birthday I got a mouse pad with elephant and note paper.


Hugs
Carolyn

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TamiL Dolls N Dreams
Aurora, Colorado
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Awwwwwwwwwww she is adorable!!! Glad mother and baby are doing well!  bear_wub  bear_wub

Barling Bears Barling Bears
Nr. Maidstone, Kent
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Hi Peter,

Thank you SO much for posting this, just what I needed today.  What wonderful beautiful news!  I watched the little video (though it was somewhat jerky on my computer for some reason) and was virtually holding my breath all the time as I was sure the little one would get trampled.  The wonderful Mum was so very protective right from the start though, wasn't she.

Elephants always make me cry, I adore them and if I watch a documentary about them, I invariably end up bawling my eyes out!

Think I will be watching this several times today!
Thank you again!

Hugs

Marilyn bear_flower

lemon wolf bear 1 Lemon Wolf Bears
Northern MN.
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OH MY....JUST AMAZING! Hugs, Susan. bear_wub  bear_wub  bear_wub

puca bears puca bears
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Thanks SO much for posting the news, Peter - as you say - it's nice to read some GOOD news.
and what an absolutely adorable baby bear_wub  bear_wub  bear_wub  - utterly enchanting! Lovely too that everything went so well, and that the elephant family are ALL happy with the new baby.

huggies
Maria

Marlys Waggle Bears
So Cal Desert
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What a sweet baby. "It takes a village" to get a baby elephant on his feet. I see they sent him rolling a couple of times, but otherwise seemed to be so gentle with him. Thanks for sharing. bear_wub  bear_wub  bear_wub

SueAnn Past Time Bears
Double Oak, Texas
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Thanks so much, Peter, for sharing this beautiful story and experience with us!  I love watching live cam video of what's going on during such a momentous occasion.

DENBY30 DENBY BEARS
EDISON, NEW JERSEY
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bear_wub What a sweet little baby.  I love elephants, so I did go watch the video, I thought they were going to trample that poor baby.  But I guess thats the way the elephants do it, all the aunts help out, trying to get  the baby on its feet.  It  sure was nice of you to share.
Thanx Pat

doodlebears Doodlebears
UK
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Hi Peter, thank you so much for the news about the baby elephant and the lovely pictures. I was holding my breath when I watched the videos. Thank goodness the baby has a loving mum to look after her. The other elephants worried me as they were trying so hard to see and investigate the new baby.

Hugs, Jane.  bear_thumb  bear_thumb  bear_thumb

Dreli-Bears Dreli-Bears
Salzburg
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Oh what a sweet baby-elephant - I love elephants since I've been a child (my ballet-teacher gave us every time we had some event in the theatre a nice elephant made out of jade and I've all my elephants still sitting here beside me)  - for me elephants are the sweetest animals (of course first coming my beloved bears) in all over this wonderful world!!!
thank you for joining with us those wonderful pictures!!! Hugs from Austria

tindlebears Tindle Bears
Xenia, ohio
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Some of us over on artfire watched the live feed for quite some time bear_original I couldn't stay up to watch that late but was very excited to see baby when i woke up : D

Carolynn Teenytinyteddybears
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Thank you for posting that Peter. I also love Eli's. Been to Addo elephant park in South Africa a number of times. Used to collect Elephants. Had about 100, the box got lost in one of the moves.... But the video was amazing to watch. Never seen a baby so new.... saw a baby giraffe take its first steps in the bush once.

Peter please settle a "dispute", what language is the lady speaking? Without displaying too much ignorance I had it as dutch. I can even read the articles. Which means Belgium is a good country to consider, I can understand what is going on around me bear_grin

desertmountainbear desertmountainbear
Bloomsburg, PA
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What a tiny sweet angel.  I am so glad it turned out well. 
Joanne

Linda Benson Bears
Tasmania
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Thankyou so much for that, Peter, baby elephants are my all time faves!  bear_wub  bear_wub  bear_wub  bear_wub  bear_wub  bear_wub  bear_wub  bear_wub  bear_wub

Bubble-Up Bears Bubble Up Bears!
Murrieta, California
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Thank you for sharing and the link too.
Boy she sure seems to be a happy little girl!!

peterbear Boechout, Antwerp
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Carolynn wrote:

Thank you for posting that Peter. I also love Eli's. Been to Addo elephant park in South Africa a number of times. Used to collect Elephants. Had about 100, the box got lost in one of the moves.... But the video was amazing to watch. Never seen a baby so new.... saw a baby giraffe take its first steps in the bush once.

Peter please settle a "dispute", what language is the lady speaking? Without displaying too much ignorance I had it as dutch. I can even read the articles. Which means Belgium is a good country to consider, I can understand what is going on around me :lol:

Yes Carolynn you are absolutely right : it is all in Dutch (the North of Belgium is Dutch speaking, the South is French speaking and a very small minority speaks German !  Can you imagine a teeny tiny country like ours with barely 10 million inhabitants speaking three different languages  bear_wacko ).

Thank you everyone for all your great feedback : I was certain that you not only liked bears, but "all creatures great and small". bear_wub

Hugs, :hug:

Peter

valewoodbears Valewood Bears
Yorkshire
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How lovely to see this, what an adorable little baby and looks so happy, bless  bear_wub  bear_wub

Pauline

Carolynn Teenytinyteddybears
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Thanks Peter. It was lovely to hear. Which do you speak? Or all 3? I have a basic understanding of German, Dutch used to be fluent, loosing it a little, and very little french. But your ratio of people to language is roughly the same as South Africa. We have 47 million people and 11 official languages. Then still dialects, immigrant languages and funigalo spoken by workers on the mines that is a mix of all of them. A bit silly really.

peterbear Boechout, Antwerp
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Carolynn wrote:

Thanks Peter. It was lovely to hear. Which do you speak? Or all 3? I have a basic understanding of German, Dutch used to be fluent, loosing it a little, and very little french. But your ratio of people to language is roughly the same as South Africa. We have 47 million people and 11 official languages. Then still dialects, immigrant languages and funigalo spoken by workers on the mines that is a mix of all of them. A bit silly really.

Carolynn, how lovely to hear that you used to be fluent in Dutch.  That is my native tongue, but I'm quite fluent in English and French (which is practically mandatory here if you work in the financial world, like I do).  My German isn't what it used to be; I haven't spoken German since high school.  It is actually quite funny when I have to attend meetings in Brussels in the centre of Belgium : the presentations are often in English and then the participants start discussing in different languages  bear_grin  When everybody is in a good mood they make an effort to speak the language of the other party, but when the discussion heats up, everybody immediately switches to their own language  bear_wacko .

Groetjes en een dikke berenknuffel,

Peter

doodlebears Doodlebears
UK
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Peter, that's so strange, I was going to ask you which language is your native language, now I know the answer.

Hugs, Jane.  bear_flower  bear_flower  bear_flower

Melisa Nichols Melisa's Bears
Hazelton, BC
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Simply adorable!  bear_wub  bear_wub  bear_wub  Thank you for sharing!  A lifelike baby elephant is on my to do list.  bear_flower

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