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May 9th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda She likes him, he rejects her.
When he’s finally ready to get it on with her she plays hard to get.
It’s a familiar story but fortunately for Taronga Zoo’s elephant breeding program it had a happy ending, with mum-to-be Tang Mo now expecting the zoo’s fourth baby elephant.
Keepers at the Sydney zoo spent two years trying to get Asian elephants Tang Mo and Gung to breed in an attempt to boost the number of the endangered species.
But their complicated past stopped them from getting too close.
Taronga’s elephant manager Gary Miller said Tang Mo was quite interested in Gung back in Thailand.
But the male didn’t want a bar of it until he reached sexual maturity.
“She wasn’t his favourite by any stretch in Thailand but he’s very interested in her now,” Mr Miller told AAP.
“Tang Mo is quite challenging and she twitches and plays coy.”
The pair got intimate briefly at Gung’s bachelor quarters, but it did not result in a pregnancy.
In one attempted breeding session, Gung, who has already fathered two elephant calves, even tried it on with Tang Mo’s best friend.
The lack of results left the zoo no choice but to go to plan B.
They brought in two German experts to artificially inseminate Tang Mo after extracting 40 millilitres of Gung’s semen.
To the delight of zoo keepers, Tang Mo’s pregnancy was confirmed a few days ago.
The gestation period for an elephant is 22 months and Tang Mo will give birth in just under two years.
There are about 35,000 Asian elephants left in the world.
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