Newborn elephant at Houston Zoo welcomed, appears thriving
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August 8, 2018
HOUSTON (AP) — Tilly reached her wrinkly trunk through the steel cables of the Houston Zoo's elephant enclosure on a recent morning, wiggling it side-to-side as if waving hello to the gathering crowd of visitors.
The Houston Chronicle reports just a few feet and a couple of fences stood between the 6-week-old elephant and a little boy of about seven who, at the sight of her flopping trunk, waved back furiously.
"Hi baby elephant!" he shouted to the about 500-pound pachyderm.
Tilly wasn't actually waving, she just lacks the muscle control to hold her long snout steady. But those facts certainly...
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