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Second young elephant dies at Syracuse zoo. Batu, 5, died 3 days after brother Ajay Updated Dec 11, 2020; Facebook Share Batu’s baby brother, Ajay, died Tuesday. Both young elephants died of elephant endotheliotropic herpes virus, the biggest killer of young Asian elephants. “Just an absolute devastating day for the community again, and for our parks team and our zoo team,’' McMahon said. Batu, pronounced BAA-two, was 5 years old. His younger brother, baby Ajay, died on Tuesday — about a month before his second birthday. Batu was born in May 2015 to Mali, his mother, and Doc, his fat...

The Rosamond Gifford Zoo is mourning the loss of the newest member of its elephant community.

The Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse said Ajay and Batu died from a virus that poses a high risk to young elephants.

Credit Rosamond Gifford Zoo The Rosamond Gifford Zoo is mourning the sudden death of its youngest elephant calf to a lethal strain of herpes that targets Asian elephants.  The calf named Ajay (ah-JYE) would have turned two in January.  Staff were treating his older brother Batu after a blood sample tested positive for Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpes Virus, or EEHV, but he had no symptoms.  At the same time they monitored Ajay, who didn’t show any symptoms until within a few hours of his death.  The virus is believed to be naturally occurring in a latent form that can become active wit...

Ajay died of a lethal strain of herpes that targets Asian elephants