The artificial insemination elephant gave birth

According to the AP Bangkok Thai news agency, veterinarians have just announced an artificial insemination elephant that gave birth to a healthy baby on Thursday, known to be the first child in Asia to mark. important step in the conservation of this endangered animal.

Asian baby elephants were born at the end of the fourth day at the elephant hospital of the Thai Elephant Conservation Center in Northern Thailand, Lampang City, the director of the Sitthidej Mahasawangkul hospital said it was a male weighing 220 pound (nearly 100 kg) is very strong and can go right away.

My mother is fine

Mother elephant with baby elephant born by artificial insemination at Thailand's Elephant Conservation Center

Sitthidej says this is the first time that artificial insemination on elephants has been successfully carried out in Thailand and Asia, we hope that it will help to increase the population of Thai elephants in the past decades.

According to an Israeli News report, an Asian elephant was also born in Israel in December using the same method of artificial insemination conducted by German veterinarians, the 11th Asian elephant. born by this method.

According to Asian elephant scientists are considered endangered species currently only about 34,000 to 54,000 survived in the wild environment.

Director Sittidej said Thai veterinarians are working hard to develop a technique that can help artificial insemination of elephants using 20-year-old semen, which also makes them more flexible. in efforts to increase Asian elephants.

However, Sittidej's research was severely criticized by conservationists because they believed that artificial insemination was unnecessary and invasive.

They argue that Thailand has many male elephants that can guarantee a healthy herd and it is better to influence their shrinking protection in this country and elsewhere in Asia. rather than developing this method.

Soraida Salwala, head of the nonprofit organization Friends of the Asian Elephant, who also runs the elephant hospital in Lampang, said, 'If we take care of them carefully, they can Natural reproduction and obviously we are here to make an effort to introduce them to the community and yell that hurry up and buy our products. '

Baby elephants born by artificial insemination (Photo: AP)

Anh Phuong