Three Baby Elephants Due at St. Louis Zoo
This dude’s got it made - 12 years old and he’s been knockin boots left and right. The child-support payments will be a bitch though.
The news here in STL has been giving this plenty of pub recently. Apparently Raja will be an absentee father - he still likes to play rough (after all, he is only 12) so his contact w the kiddies will be very limited.
Yeah, esp. since an elephant never forgets…
“Raja,” eh?
It’s good to be the king! 
Holy crap–Raja’s 12? I remember when he was just born…just a wee little elephant baby… :eek:
Bah. It’s peanuts.
Y’know what they say about a male elephant and the size of his trunk…
Unfortunately, this story has taken a sad turn. The baby elephant has apparently died in the womb (according to local news tonite, I’ll try to find a link tomorrow). As there is no way to perform any kind of Cesarian on an elephant, she will have to ‘pass’ the deceased calf in due time.
It was explained at the Riddle Elephant Sanctuary that there is a difficult bend in the birth canal the baby must make; many die there during birth.
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Aw, bugger.
Of course, because we are fighting ignorance here at the Straight Dope, isn’t the correct term for Raja a ‘man-ho’?