The zoo will soon offer the public a chance to name the new elephant.
The zoo announced the male calf will be named"Jabari" after a contest that gathered more than 8,000 votes from around the world.
"Jabari" is a name that means"fearless" or"brave" in Swahili, which the zoo said was a"good description for our curious calf."to Zahara over Labor Day weekend, weighing 262 pounds. Jabari's birth was historic, becoming the first in the world where the baby was born through artificial insemination to a mother who was also born through the same procedure.
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