by shade » Mon Jul 03, 2006 3:35 pm
Apologies for bumping this up, but I was reading through "Pets Pics" and the title "Kito" of this thread caught my eye.
On 6th December 2002 at Colchester Zoo (Essex) a baby African elephant was born, the Zoo asked the public to vote for a name out of a possible 6 over the internet, the name chosen was "Kito"...the name means precious.
I went to see him when he was just a few months old and his mischievousness reminded me of a 2 year old human baby, you could see him laughing at the keepers when they were trying to get him back into the enclosure with his mother and he didn't want to go, he was running rings round them, the public was laughing at his antics and he knew it.