Mysore Zoo - use of Testoviron. The male failed to respond to the female in oestrous until it was given doses of a special hormone called Testoviron in powdered form mixed with its regular diet. The first succesful breeding took place more than two years later.
Gestation period. 458 days, Mysore 1966
Birth time: 14:15 pm, in Mysore Zoo, 1966
Mysore Zoo. The birth was completed about 20 minutes after the front legs first appeared. Licked immediately by the mother, the baby was the size of a half-grown pig. Fifteen minutes after birth the calf was struggling to its feet, which was accomplished in another 30 minutes. Another half hour later the calf was moving towards the mother insearch of her teats and began succkling 2 hours after birth.
Mysore Zoo. Female came into heat every 30-35 days.
Photos of birth 26 Aug 1966.
