There is a small herd of African elephants (LOXODONTA AFRICANA) (ELEPHANTIDAE) in the Moscow zoo consisting of a male and three females. There are also a male with two females of Asian elephant (ELEPHAS MAXIMUS) (ELEPHANTIDAE). Three years ago one of these females gave birth to a calf. Now this young weights already some hundreds of kilograms.

All our elephants were acquired when they were very young and they grew up in the Moscow zoo.