Robbie Clark
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34 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 10 Jan
Robbie Clark’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So this is all the ways and actually the space is where she's gonna have her baby.
We practice everything in here several times a day so she's as prepared as possible.
We've been training Ni Lin to allow us to go in with her.
The vet team wanted us to be prepared that if the calf doesn't nurse, can we express milk from Ni Lin?
So we're actually sensitizing her to a breast pump, like things that you would never think about for an elephant.
We're doing with her.
breast pump for an elephant we actually bought a human breast pump oh i actually had never utilized one either and i was like okay i'm gonna need some assistance so we just desensitized her to the sound the suction she's not a fan but um we're working on it as we moved deeper into the building half a dozen elephants moseyed around including the soon-to-be father spike
Spike is cool, calm, and collected.
Some zoos have successfully seen males have a fatherly role with calves with play and coordination and maybe even some discipline.
There's other zoos that have seen the opposite where there's not a lot of interest, but it'll be quite exciting to see how Spike reacts because he's never been around a baby.
But being over 13,000 pounds, hopefully to see him interact with a three to 400 pound baby will be positive for everyone.
I wish everyone could experience the relationship that myself and the animal care team for this herd experience on a daily basis.
Elephants are extremely social and intelligent.
I hope that people realise that elephants are amazing animals and that they deserve the chance to survive as a species.
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