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Tuesday, 17 August 2010


Schoenbrunn zoo in Vienna announced the name of it's new male elephant calf born on 6 August yesterday. The new baby elephant will be called Tuluba which means 'big ears'.

Vienna zoo names baby elephant

Vienna's Schoenbrunn zoo has finally named it's baby elephant.

Schoenbrunn zoo in Vienna announced the name of it's new male elephant calf born on 6 August yesterday. The new baby elephant will be called Tuluba which means 'big ears'.

The baby elephant's name was chose by 10,000 voters on the internet.

Zoo Director Dagmar Schratter said: "Tuluba was my favourite since it is a very melodic name." 

The other names voters could have picked were "shambe" (leader)and Radi (thunder).

See more photos of Tuluba at www.firstnews.co.uk/news-in-pictures.

 


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