Photos of the Asian elephants at the Jerusalem Bibical Zoo in Israel

http://www.asianelephant.net/jerusalem/jerusalem.htm

Biblical Zoo's elephant Abigail loses tug-of-war with death

Jerusalem's Biblical Zoo last week lost two elephants, an unborn calf and its mother, who died from complications of pregnancy. Abigail, 32, died on Friday evening at the zoo's intensive care veterinary ward despite an international effort to deliver the dead calf she was carrying in her womb. After Abigail went into labor but could not give birth, the zoo's veterinary staff called Dr. Thomas Bernd Hildebrandt from the Institute for Zoo Biology and Wildlife Research, Berlin, and another expert on elephant reproduction from the Rotterdam Zoo. "On the night that Abigail went into labor, at one point she became too exhausted and stopped pushing," said Dr. Nili Avni Magen. Abigail died three days after the operation, at the end of her 90th week of gestation. She was one of the zoo's symbols: She would participate in an annual tug-of-war against Jerusalem's Hapoel soccer team. (Jonathan Lis)

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1104524.html

Sex of the calf is unknown as only the head and one leg could be removed during surgery.
Sunisa was a small elephant and the calf was very big. After the death of Sunisa no further autopsy has been done.

NB: The zoo named her Abigail, but the studbook says Sunisa.

Thanks for the information, Oli ...