Opal is a living Female ♀ African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) , located at the Colchester Zoo, in United Kingdom.
Opal arrived in 1998-02-28 to the Colchester Zoo, relocated from the Mary Chipperfield’s Circus, in United Kingdom.
Opal lives together with 3 other elephants at the Colchester Zoo: (detailed list)
Opal was born wild 1982 at Africa unspecified location, captured 1985 .
1998-02-28: Opal was sold to Colchester by Mary Chipperfield. Opal the elephant became pregnant by fellow herd-member Tembo at Colchester Zoo through Artificial insemination and is expected to give birth in the spring of next year. Over the last 10 years bull elephant Tembo has fathered four young of whom two were born at Colchester, Kito and Jambo. Tembos other calves born through Artificial insemination were Abu, who was born in April 2001 in Vienna, and Thabo-Umasai, who was born at Dresden Zoo in February 2006. Opal the Elephant is Pregnant, 01/27/2009 It turned out to be a case of “Whos the (big) daddy?” Because today it emerged that an elephant credited with siring a yet-to-be-born calf had nothing to do with the Pregnancy. Yesterday Colchester Zoo announced that Opal, a cow elephant at the Stanway attraction, had become pregnant thanks to its bull elephant Tembo. Tembo, who has been at the zoo with Opal for 10 years, is already a father of four - Kito, Jambo, Abu and Thabo-Umasi. But it transpires that when Opal was artificially inseminated recently, it was not Tembo who was the donor. Instead, the father will be a bull elephant called Jack, who lives in the West Midlands. The zoo issued a correction this morning. Elephant Paternity Mix-Up at Zoo, 01/30/2009 2010-03-04: Thomas Hildebrandt, from the Leibniz Institute commented that, “based on our intensive discussions with Colchester Zoo, it is very likely that the full-term calf in the African elephant Opal died during the birthing process.
Opal the elephant became pregnant by fellow herd-member Tembo at Colchester Zoo through Artificial insemination and is expected to give birth in the spring of next year. Over the last 10 years bull elephant Tembo has fathered four young of whom two were born at Colchester, Kito and Jambo. Tembos other calves born through Artificial insemination were Abu, who was born in April 2001 in Vienna, and Thabo-Umasai, who was born at Dresden Zoo in February 2006.
It turned out to be a case of “Whos the (big) daddy?” Because today it emerged that an elephant credited with siring a yet-to-be-born calf had nothing to do with the Pregnancy. Yesterday Colchester Zoo announced that Opal, a cow elephant at the Stanway attraction, had become pregnant thanks to its bull elephant Tembo. Tembo, who has been at the zoo with Opal for 10 years, is already a father of four - Kito, Jambo, Abu and Thabo-Umasi. But it transpires that when Opal was artificially inseminated recently, it was not Tembo who was the donor. Instead, the father will be a bull elephant called Jack, who lives in the West Midlands. The zoo issued a correction this morning.
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