Despite its long neck, a giraffe has only 7 neck bones – the same number as you do.
Elephant calf named Luk Chai!
27 July 2009
Thong Dee’s little calf has a name! We’ve named him “Luk Chai”.
Photo: Rick Stevens
After going through over 30,000 entires that you all put forward in the naming competition, us keepers decided to go with “Luk Chai”. It’s pronounced Look- Chai.
We liked this name as it reflects his Thai heritage and means “my son”. A word that sounds similar to Chai also means triumph and our boisterous and inquisitive boy certainly is a triumph for the conservation breeding program.
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