{"id":748839,"date":"2026-04-24T02:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/748839\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T02:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:18:10","slug":"asian-elephant-calf-makes-her-public-debut-at-dcs-national-zoo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/748839\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian elephant calf makes her public debut at DC\u2019s National Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The hottest new celebrity in Washington, D.C., <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/16\/science\/baby-elephant-linh-mai-shunned-by-her-mother-fans-relate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is Asian elephant calf Linh Mai<\/a>, who made her public debut Wednesday at the\u00a0Smithsonian\u2019s National Zoo.<\/p>\n<p>She is the first elephant calf born at the zoo in 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>Mother elephant Nhi Linh gave birth to Linh Mai on Feb. 2 after nearly two years of pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>The hottest new celebrity in Washington, D.C., is Asian elephant calf Linh Mai, who made her public debut Wednesday at the\u00a0Smithsonian\u2019s National Zoo. Douliery Olivier\/ABACA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>Linh Mai is the first elephant calf born at the zoo in 25 years. REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>Robbie Clark, the zoo\u2019s elephant manager, said, \u201cLinh Mai is a hoot, she\u2019s a fantastic little elephant to get to know.\u201d Douliery Olivier\/ABACA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>Fans who can\u2019t visit Washington can check out Linh Mai on the zoo\u2019s\u00a0elephant cam. Douliery Olivier\/ABACA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>Robbie Clark, the zoo\u2019s elephant manager, said, \u201cLinh Mai is a hoot, she\u2019s a fantastic little elephant to get to know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s very curious,\u201d Clark added. \u201cShe\u2019s learning how to be quite playful with the enrichment and the environment that she\u2019s living in, and she\u2019s confident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Asian elephants at the National Zoo live in an expansive area called Elephant Trails, which contains outdoor walkways and pools. <\/p>\n<p>Fans who can\u2019t visit Washington can check out Linh Mai on the zoo\u2019s\u00a0elephant cam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 The hottest new celebrity in Washington, D.C., is Asian elephant calf Linh Mai, who made her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":748840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[27],"tags":[32720,5854,159,67,132,68,1154,837,4286],"class_list":["post-748839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-dc","tag-elephants","tag-science","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-wildlife","tag-zoos"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116457288785564953","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}