Database of the Asian Elephants at the Zoological Gardens of the World
The latest News about the Asian Elephants at the Zoological Gardens of the World
• After months of waiting, Ramba, the last circus elephant in Chile, has been transferred successfully to the Safari Park Rancagua on January 5, 2012
• Two ailing and aged elephants at the San Diego Zoo had to be euthanized within the first week of the new year, on January 4 and 6, 2012
• 22-year-old Panang gave birth to a female calf, the fourth one for father Gajendra, at the Tierpark Hellabrunn in München on October 28, 2011
• The 34-year-old Asian elephant Asha became mother for the first time and gave birth to a healthy calf at the Toyohashi Zoo on September 17, 2011
• Only two months after her companion Mary died in May, Ellen, who spent more than five decades at the Little Rock Zoo, died on July 5, 2011
• The 21-year-old Asian elephant Thong Tai gave birth to a female calf called Mumba at the Artis Zoo Amsterdam in the Netherlands on June 18, 2011
• The two retired circus elephants Jewell and Zina from Ringling Brothers arrived at the Little Rock Zoo early Wednesday morning on June 8, 2011
• The young Asian elephant bull Maung Htoo has arrived from the Safaripark El Castillo in Spain at the Touroparc Romanèche in France on May 6, 2011
• Mary at the Little Rock Zoo was diagnosed with tumors in her abdomen and was put to sleep after her health took downward turn on May 5, 2011
• A 304-pound female elephant calf was born to its mother Asha at the Oklahoma City Zoo, the first one in the zoo's history, on April 15, 2011
• The Zoo Heidelberg has added with Gandhi its fourth young Asian elephant bull, who arrived from the Zoo København in Denmark on April 1, 2011
• 14-year-old mother Vishesh at the Ostrava Zoo in the Czech Rep. gave birth to the 78 kg male calf, her first one, early Friday on March 11, 2011
• Coco, resident of the Columbus Zoo for 37 years, died on February 16, 2011, after he was found by staff members, lying down and unable to get up
• The Asian elephant Begümcan gave birth to a female calf, the first elephant ever born in Turkey, at the Izmir Sasali Wildlife Park on February 5, 2011
• Once more a male elephant calf has been born, this time by mother Htoo Yin Aye, at the Dierenpark Emmen in the Netherlands on February 6, 2011
• Asian Elephant Thi Ha Way gave birth to her seventh calf at the Chester Zoo in the United Kingdom just before midnight on January 22, 2011
• For the renovation of the historical elephant house at the Tierpark Hellabrunn elephant bull Gajendra was sent to the Zoo Leipzig on January 8, 2011
• World record for an eternity at the Zoo Hannover in 2010: there have never been born five elephant calves at one single zoo within one year before
• The San Diego Zoo's elephants Tina and Jewel arrived at the $42 million exhibit Elephants of Asia at the Los Angeles Zoo on November 10, 2010
• The Taronga Zoo in Sydney has welcomed its first female Asian elephant calf, which has yet to be named, just after midnight on November 2, 2010
• The 28-year-old elephant bull Sabu arrived in September 2010 at the Performing Animal Welfare Society where he joined his half brother Nicholas
• Tess delivered a healthy 273 pound female calf at the Houston Zoo's McNair Asian Elephant Habitat in the evening hours on October 3, 2010
• Manyula, the only elephant in El Salvador, died after living nearly her whole life at the Zoológico Nacional in San Salvador on September 21, 2010
• A 142 kg male elephant calf was born to mother Kulab at 10.30am on September 10, 2010, after a 650-day pregnancy at the Melbourne Zoo
• The fourth elephant has been born this year to Manari, at the same time her second calf, at the Zoologischer Garten Hannover on August 6, 2010
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