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Moscow zoo gets a new member!

AP
Published : Jun 20, 2017, 6:48 pm IST
Updated : Jun 20, 2017, 6:48 pm IST

Weighing 90 kgs, Filimon the baby elephant was presented to public by deputy mayor

Newborn elephant Filimon walks in the pavilion at the Moscow zoo in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, June, 20, 2017. Filimon, a baby elephant recently born at the Moscow zoo, has been presented to the public for the first time. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr.)
 Newborn elephant Filimon walks in the pavilion at the Moscow zoo in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, June, 20, 2017. Filimon, a baby elephant recently born at the Moscow zoo, has been presented to the public for the first time. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr.)

Moscow: Huddling close to his mother, a baby Asian elephant has faced the public for the first time at the Moscow zoo

The appearance of Filimon, who already weighs 90 kilograms (198 pounds), is such a rare occasion that Moscow City Hall dispatched a deputy mayor to present the baby elephant to the public. Some visitors specifically went to the zoo on Tuesday to see the newborn.

Newborn elephant Filimon and his mother Pipita walk in the pavilion at the Moscow zoo in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, June, 20, 2017. Filimon, a baby elephant recently born at the Moscow zoo, has been presented to the public for the first time. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr.)Newborn elephant Filimon and his mother Pipita walk in the pavilion at the Moscow zoo in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, June, 20, 2017. Filimon, a baby elephant recently born at the Moscow zoo, has been presented to the public for the first time. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr.)

Filimon, born less than a month ago to parents who have been living in Moscow since the late 1980s, has increased the number of the elephant family at the zoo to five.

Visibly disoriented, the baby walked into the sunlit enclosure Tuesday morning, sticking close to his mother and trying to grab carrots scattered on the floor.

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