Saturday, December 1, 2012

Elephants are dying out in America's zoos

112 ARTIFICIAL-INSEMINATION ATTEMPTS: Dr. Dennis Schmitt, center, visiting from Springfield, Mo., watches on a monitor as he guides a tube inside the reproductive tract of Chai as his assistant Cody Dalton injects sperm from a donor elephant last year. Elephant keeper Peter McLane is at left. A total of 112 artificial-insemination attempts have been made to impregnate Chai, now 33.