First Zoo Webcam Goes Live

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Summary

The National Zoological Park provides its first live webcam of an animal birth when a Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros named Mechi gives birth to Chitwan on September 18, 1996, at 4:00 am in the Elephant House. He weighs 138 lbs. at the time of his birth.

Subject

  • National Zoological Park (U.S.) Elephant House
  • National Zoological Park (U.S.)

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

  • There may have briefly been elephant webcams before this. See https://web.archive.org/web/20010208125710/http://natzoo.si.edu:80/zooview/exhibits/elehouse/movies/movies.htm
  • Personal Communication, Marc Bretzfelder, 5/10/2017.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

September 18, 1996

Topic

  • Webcams
  • Rhinoceroses
  • World Wide Web
  • Births

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