Elephant to Give Birth at Brookfield Zoo

1940

Stork Hovers

Biggest blessed event of the year is scheduled to take place either in August (if a boy) or September (if a daughter) at the Brookfield zoo, near Chicago, where Nancy, a 5-ton elephant, is expected to give birth to a baby pachyderm. The bird has special interest because never before in the history of America has a baby elephant survived birth more than a few weeks. In every other case the mother has developed murderous tendencies, refused to nurse the calf and tried to crush it to death.

—The Cullman Democrat, Cullman, Alabama, August 22, 1940, page 7.