Union Gap and Yakima County has declared a disaster, Jeff Emmons, Director of Emergency Management, announced at the meeting. A map of the updated area affected is attached to this story. Emmons said the county is on standby and ready for whatever happens.
The gestation periods of other animal reveals that the length of the gestation period is largely a matter of the animal specie's size. Asian elephants have a gestation period of 645 days and African elephants 640 days. Dogs and other canines have a gestation period of about 60, which is also the period for cats. Even within the species of apes and monkeys gestation period seem to be a matter of size.
Female elephants experience a 22-month gestation period. Jupiterimages/liquidlibrary/Getty Images. How often an elephant mates depends on the gender. Male, or bull, elephants must enter into a condition called musth before breeding.A female elephant who is not pregnant or caring for a calf goes through an annual estrus cycle.lephants copulate many times over a few days. The bull stays with the cow for several days after breeding, mainly to ensure that no other bulls mate with her. If the cow becomes pregnant, she'll give birth approximately two years later. She joins a female herd to give birth, which she does standing up.