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Posted: 1:05 PM- Christie, a 22-year-old elephant at Utah's Hogle Zoo, is pregnant after three attempts to artificially inseminate her.
The zoo says the pregnancy was confirmed Saturday during an ultrasound procedure. If the pregnancy holds, Christie will be a mom in late summer 2009 - the first African elephant born at Hogle.
The semen was from an elephant in Pittsburgh. There were three attempts to inseminate Christie since summer 2006, the last in October.
Christie has lived at the zoo for 20 years.
