The Toledo Zoo is welcoming a newborn African elephant calf by asking the public to vote for a name from three choices: Lucas, Chuck, and Iain. If your choice gets the most votes, you might win a prize, too. Click here to vote.
More information at the Toledo Blade.
I voted for Lucas. Lookit the babeh fuzz!
Lucas, Chuck, Iain? Why?
anyway, i love the little rosy knees …
ok … i should have voted before i questioned … i went for Chuck …
Teeny, tiny trunk like babies’ fingers …
i voted for chuck, too. can’t think of a better name for an elephant
His “rosy” knees look more like “bloody” knees… Anyone else seeing this?
There’s something red on…is it Mom?…in the lower right hand corner. Depending on when the picture was taken, it could be afterbirth (although he looks a little old for it), or could be paint/juice/crushed fruit/ketchup/jam. As a keeper, it’s always fun to come in the next day after a co-worker used something red for enrichment and didn’t tell you. Oh, and the vet does not like being called down for ketchup.
Or, it could be blood. Cuts and abrasions happen in zoos and in the wild, and I don’t know how tough baby elephant knee skin is when they’re young. May take awhile to toughen up.
Chuck!
or Chunk, more appropriately
what a cutie patootie!
which, oddly enough, brings my ridiculous brain to the intro to Fresh Prince, and the “Thunder Chunky” graffiti shown in one of the scenes…
screenshot
booo…. lost my link…
html fail : (
Chuck is to honour the first animal brought to the zoo,a wood chuck. I forget the other two,but it explains them when you click on the link.
Those are not appropriate names for the Fithp.
Stampy!
Stampy McStampertons!
Stampy McVoldemort?
Voldy McStampersons?
Mister Stampy Pants!
(If it’s good enough for Greenpeace….)
Slut Binwalla?
@Lillith: *snerk*
Tom Marvolo Riddle-McStampersons the third.
Nicholas — in honor of the little boy who loved the elephant and the zoo
Oooooo, ‘Snorky’ is PERFECTION! Or ‘Fubsy’ would be good.
Ian,
he looks like the dark, handsome stranger who will wrap you around his trunk and then stomp on your heart when he leaves for waterholes unknown to man.
Well, not sure if I should be pleased that somebody votes my name or not then.. obviously you got the bit about me being handsome right!
Obviously I’ve been scarred by too many harlequin novels.
If I had an elephant it would be called Cyrano de Proboscis.
Chuck. Like my wonderful friend, the late Chuck Sheehan – an all around great person and a lifelong supporter of good zoos.
How about an African name in respect to his heritage?
He’s an African elephant but he’s born in Toronto. Besides, not all Africans are named like Lion King. That being said, Nelson’s a good name for the little fella.
How about Tutu?
Could the hovertext perhaps be a reference to this classic?
DAMN YOU! How do you beat me to this wonderful video!
but I do agree. He should be named “Snerkum”
Or maybe Conway?
You realize that the script said
EUNIC PICKS UP A CARD.
Some things are better off-script!
I laugh until I cry every. single. time I see this clip. LOVE IT. (My next favorite is Conway & Korman’s take-off on Jaws where Korman plays a Quint like character and Conway talks about his sister who get eaten by sharks because she had a pork chop tied around her neck when she went swimming.)
If you don’t laugh at this clip, you have no funny bone.
That little guy is a JASPER if there ever was one.
Am I the only one bothered by the “Proudly Sponsored by BP” featured prominently below the photo of the baby elephant on the Toledo Zoo’s website?
Nope; I was just coming in here to make a comment as well.
What about it bothers you? Just askin’.
Hmmm…Well, as you may recall, they’ve not been the most responsible caretakers of the natural habitats of animals in which they occupy. Just sayin’.
Wondering if you would have said this pre-spill. I suspect it wouldn’t have crossed anyone’s mind.
(not defending BP, just asking for Responsible Fist-Shaking)
I feel that anywhere there is big corporate involvement under the facade of genuine altruistic concern justifies “fist shaking”. Especially with corporations that exploit/destroy the natural habitats of countless animal species. Also, pre- or post-spill is not necessarily relevant to the validity of the comment.
He’s totally a Chuck. Not to mention adorabuhls. ♥♥♥
Lolol @ Lain. But yeah I am glad it wasn’t some traditional African name like every other zoo animal, boring!
Wow that was a tough choice but my first thought was Chuck before i got to the site and after reading what all the choices represented I decided to stick with my original choice so CHuck he sahall be I hope.. Crosses fingers. Did you see his cute as can be video of his first day?
Boo boo face!
You can tell he is the opposite of “He who must NOT be named” by he extravagant nose!
DING! You win the thread!
hey NOMTOM, does commenter wondering win a prize? =D
Little bebeh elephant was born in Toledo, Ohio, not Toronto. He’s a Buckeye through and through. I guess I like Chuck, although Charles would be nice when he’s older and more dignified!
Baby elephants make me teary.
He looks like a Louie to me.
When I was a kid and they had a contest to name a baby elephant in St. Louis, I thought he should be named after something historic that happened at the time he was born. Since elephants live so much longer than many of their other zoo companions, I thought that the elephant could be a living tribute to some historical event at the time.
Alas, the St. Louis calf was an Indian elephant and an Indian couple submitted the name Raja. They made a big deal about the elephant being Indian and the couple being Indian and the name meaning “king” or “prince”….no one seemed to mind that it was also the name of the tiger in Aladdin which already out at the time. Made the name choice seem much less original to me than everyone else seemed to think it was.
Welcome to the world, sweetheart!!
I’m doing my best to protect all your elephant peeps in the world. #madelephantlove
whoops – totally read that as “made lephant love”….
o.O
I read Mad Elephant Love, but in a dirty way.
Henry, for Henry Mancini, of “Baby Elephant Walk” fame.
Aw I didn’t even realize that his mom was pregnant when I went to the zoo! I’ll have to go visit this baby when I visit home again and send in some pictures of him
sorry, but I vote for Mr. Schnozzlekins
I would vote for Chuck only if he had siblings named Vera and Dave.
And would they be on your knee?
Yes, but then I’ll probably need a knee replacement when I’m 64.
As a side note, elephants are the only animals with four knees (or more accurately, four forward-facing limb joints).
*snerkity snerk*
Brilliant!
Lucas
Sweetie Darling
I thought Q. T. Py.
He looks like a Lucas to me!
huh, why the red eye?
i mean, it’s *really* red!
cute little bugger, by the way.