{"id":979090,"date":"2026-08-04T01:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T01:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/979090\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T01:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T01:52:14","slug":"dallas-zoo-announces-birth-of-baby-african-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/979090\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Zoo announces birth of baby African elephant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><strong>DALLAS<\/strong> &#8211; The elephant herd at the Dallas Zoo has a new member of the family.<\/p>\n<p>   Elephant born at Dallas Zoo <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Dallas Zoo announced that a male African elephant was born on July 26 to mother Mlilo.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Mlilo gave birth after a 21-month pregnancy, the Zoo announced on social media.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The baby weighed 230 pounds at birth and was welcomed to its herd by several other elephants at the Dallas Zoo, including Okubili, the calf&#8217;s older brother.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The calf has not yet been named. The Dallas Zoo says its team is working to give the calf &#8220;a perfect name.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Dallas Zoo says it will reveal the public debut of the new elephant calf at a later date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Information in this story comes from the Dallas Zoo.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/pets-animals\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pets and Animals<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS &#8211; The elephant herd at the Dallas Zoo has a new member of the family. Elephant born&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":979091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,7290,50,8047,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-979090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-news","tag-pets-animals","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117034742388670838","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979090","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=979090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/979091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}