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Hello everyone, I'm Mac So, a zoo photographer. I specialize in animal portraits, and today I would like to introduce you to the Asian elephants at Sapporo Maruyama Zoo through my work.

Four Asian elephants from Myanmar arrived at the Sapporo Maruyama Zoo in 2018. The environment surrounding wild Asian elephants is not favorable; their population has been decreasing due to habitat destruction caused by deforestation, land clearing, and overhunting for tusks, medicine, and other uses. As a result, they are currently listed as an endangered species.

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The birth rate of Asian elephants in captivity is said to be about 0.7% worldwide, which makes breeding very difficult. However, a baby elephant was born last year and turned one year old on August 19 this year.
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    The baby elephant weighed about 90 kg at birth but now weighs 605 kg and is growing up well. His name is Tao, which means “brilliance” in Myanmar, the language of his mother country.
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    1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For any of those who do not get it, elephants are very sweet lovely self aware animals. JUST LIKE HUMANS... They are family oriented, they bear offspring they care for - up 5o 10 years . They cry- shed tears. They feel pain and express it the best they can for humans to understand.

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    2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    what a wonderful portfolio of amazing pictures of these absolutely majestic animals!

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