Chai the elephant has been artificially inseminated again, and the Zoo hopes that a new cute baby elephant will ease all of the heartache from baby Hansa’s death last year [PI]. People are all up in arms about it because the strain of herpes that Hansa died from was an unidentified strain, so who knows where it came from? Which, really, is a pretty valid point. While the procedure happened, Chai stood around eating canteloupe, apples, and carrots, to keep her from moving around, I suppose. The…donation came from a boy elephant living in Tulsa.

Buried in the article is an upsetting anecdote about another Woodland Park Zoo elephant that was loaned to St. Louis for 10 years: “Sri became pregnant, but the baby died before it was born, and she still carries the unborn body two years later. Zoo officials there say that isn’t unusual for elephants.” What zoo officials don’t say is if that’s not unusual for all elephants, or only elephants in captivity. Either way, I hope that they gave Chai some really good canteloupe.

(October’s baby gorilla can be found here, and you can keep up with Haidah the tiger here, if 22 months is too long to wait for an adorable critter.)