WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The Sedgwick County Zoo’s excitement about five elephant pregnancies has been dimmed as one of the pregnancies has ended in a stillbirth.
The zoo says 29-year-old African elephant Simunye delivered a stillborn calf on Friday following a healthy, full-term pregnancy.
“The Zoo community, staff, and elephant herd alike are mourning this devastating loss,” the zoo said in a news release. “This would have marked the first elephant born at Sedgwick County Zoo in its 54-year history.”
Simunye had been getting regular prenatal exams. The zoo said everything indicated that both mom and calf were healthy with no sign of complications throughout the entire gestational term…