Thuringia: Vegetable cake for the festival: Elephant girl is two years old

Erfurt (dpa/th) - The elephant girl Ayoka from the Erfurt Zoo turned two years old on Friday.

Thuringia: Vegetable cake for the festival: Elephant girl is two years old

Erfurt (dpa/th) - The elephant girl Ayoka from the Erfurt Zoo turned two years old on Friday. The vegetable cake, including carrot candle and carved two, was enjoyed by Ayoka, Mama Chupa, Papa Kibo and Aunt Safari, according to the zoo. In order to explore the gift table, the young pachyderm was allowed to enter the show house alone.

Ayoka is Erfurt's first elephant calf. The little one saw the light of day in 2020 after a gestation period of 666 days without any complications. The zoo team will be happy to celebrate your birthdays. At that time she weighed 114 kilograms and was 93 centimeters high.

Even if her weight has almost quintupled and she has grown by around 60 centimetres: Ayoka, who now weighs 550 kilograms and is around 1.50 meters tall, is "still a small, playful elephant who causes a lot of fuss on the system". said a spokesman. She is "still very agile compared to the older elephants". Ayoka - true to her name with the same meaning - brings joy to many.