Elephant Bunting with Sperm Frozen Wild Elephants

AGUS SUSANTO COMPASS/Child elephant named Namo aged 5 months (left) and Tangka (9 months) to play in the region, The ecotourism Tangkahan Tualang, Langkat Regency, North Sumatra, Sunday (5/6/2011).

VIENNA, KOMPAS.com — it's hard to bring African elephant male berkelamin to the Zoo Vienna, Austria, to a female elephant with mated there. Finally, the imported frozen sperm from a male African elephant who was still in the wild. The female elephant finally bunting.

Vienna Zoo party speak, it is the first time in the world an elephant bunting fertilization with females through insemination using sperm are frozen. Previously, this had been done over the way a female elephant and African elephants Asian origin, but the female fetus is fed inside then die.

"If the child was born it elephants were among the first in the world the birth of a baby elephant with fertilization using sperm frozen wild male elephant," said a spokesman for the Vienna Zoo, told AFP Monday (13/8/2012). "It's very special," ujarya.

Tonga, a 26 year old female elephants is now nine months from the time bunting bunting for 22 months. If Tonga gave birth to the child, then how it will be used also insemination for breeding elephants in the Zoo or the National Park that difficulties with spouse jantannya.

Tiergarten Schoenbrunn in Vienna, is one of the oldest zoos in the world. This project is for collaboration with Leibniz Institute for Zoo, Wildlife Research, the Zooparc de Beauval Germany from France and the Pittsburg Zoo from the United States.