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So there are now 55000 and 1 Asian elephants*. I don’t understand the newsworthiness of having an extra Asian elephant joining the other 15000 Asian elephants in captivity.

Wild Asian elephants roam between 100km2 to 1500km2. This elephant will spend a life confined to just how many square km’s?

Direct source with better readability and many pictures:

https://nationalzoo.si.edu/news/female-asian-elephant-calf-b...

And even more pictures and info on Asian elephants:

https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/news/get-know-herd-asian-...

At last someone addresses it

> [this individual] will help strengthen the genetic diversity of the Asian elephant population in North America and around the world.

I'm happy for them that there is now a calf after a long time, but this sentence doesn't read as hopeful as the author probably intended