ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>New York PP Zoo, United States</TITLE> <META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META name="title" content="Asian elephants at the Prospect Park Zoo in New York"> <META name="keywords" content="zoo, elephant, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York"> <META name="description" content="Asian elephants at the zoological gardens of the world"> <LINK rel="StyleSheet" type="text/css" href="../data/look.css"> <LINK rel="Shortcut Icon" href="../elephas.ico"> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../data/container.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language=JavaScript src="../data/eletop.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT>var annee = new Date();</SCRIPT> </HEAD> <BODY leftmargin=2 bgcolor=E0E0E0> <SCRIPT language=JavaScript> function gall(showtext) { document.getElementById('showfeld').innerHTML=showtext; } onload=scrollInit; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript">d.write(menu.sm)</SCRIPT> <DIV align=center> <TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=995> <TBODY class=wup> <TR><TD width=28><IMG src="../pics/bl.gif"></TD> <TD align=center width=789 style="background-image: url(../pics/cb.gif); 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background-repeat: repeat-x"> Photos of the Asian elephants at the Prospect Park Zoo in New York in the United States</TD> <TD><IMG src="../pics/er.gif"></TD></TR> </TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE class=boz border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=995> <TBODY> <TR><TD align=center valign=bottom height=22 width="34%"> <B>Prospect Park Zoo : 4 Photos</B></TD> <TD class=allb rowspan=5 height=505 width="66%"> <DIV id="showfeld"><IMG src="NeYPP03.jpg" border=1><BR> Photo 03: Elephant exhibit in the 1930&#146;s</TD></TR> <TR><TD class=all align=center height=28>The zoo keeps no more Asian elephants since 1986</TD></TR> <TR><TD align=center height=18> <DIV id="divUp"> <A class=heb href="#" onmouseover="scroll(-10)" onmouseout="noScroll()"> <IMG border=0 src="../pics/eleup.gif"></A></DIV></TD></TR> <TR><TD align=center height=400> <DIV id="divCont" style="visibility:visible;"> <DIV id="divSent" style="visibility:visible;" class=all> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Photo 03 - 1938: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Postcard 04 - 1950's: <A onclick="gall('<IMG src=NeYPP03.jpg border=1><BR>Photo 03: Elephant exhibit in the 1930&#146;s');" href="#"><IMG border=1 src="NeYPP03p.jpg"></A>&nbsp; <A onclick="gall('<IMG src=NeYPP04.jpg border=1><BR>Postcard 04: Asian elephants in the 1950&#146;s');" href="#"><IMG border=1 src="NeYPP04p.jpg"></A> <BR> Photo 01 - 1938: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Photo 02 - 1938: <A onclick="gall('<IMG src=NeYPP01.jpg border=1><BR>Photo 01: Hilda and Bill in the 1930&#146;s');" href="#"><IMG border=1 src="NeYPP01p.jpg"></A>&nbsp; <A onclick="gall('<IMG src=NeYPP02.jpg border=1><BR>Photo 02: Bill and Astra in the 1930&#146;s');" href="#"><IMG border=1 src="NeYPP02p.jpg"></A> <BR><HR size=1 color=black noshade><BR>If you have got some photos of the former Asian elephants and exhibit at the Prospect Park as well, please send them to us by <A class=zoo href="mailto:mail@asianelephant.net?subject=Prospekt Park Zoo elephant photos">email</A> and we will add your photos to this page.<BR><BR><HR size=1 color=black noshade> </DIV></DIV> </TD></TR> <TR><TD align=center valign=top height=37> <DIV id="divDown"><A class=heb href="#" onmouseover="scroll(10)" onmouseout="noScroll()"> <IMG border=0 src="../pics/eledown.gif"></A></DIV></TD></TR> </TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE><TBODY><TR><A name="Elephants"><TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=995> <TBODY class=bak> <TR> <TD><IMG src="../pics/el.gif"></TD> <TD width="100%" align=center style="background-image: url(../pics/sb.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x"> Record of the Asian elephants at the Prospect Park Zoo in New York</TD> <TD><IMG src="../pics/er.gif"></TD></TR> </TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE class=boz border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width=995> <TBODY> <TR><TD> <TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"> <TBODY class=all><TR> <TD width=70>Name</TD> <TD>1</TD><TD>9</TD><TD>0</TD><TD>0</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>9</TD><TD>0</TD><TD>5</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>9</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>0</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>9</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>5</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>9</TD><TD>2</TD><TD>0</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>9</TD><TD>2</TD><TD>5</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>9</TD><TD>3</TD><TD>0</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>9</TD><TD>3</TD><TD>5</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>9</TD><TD>4</TD><TD>0</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>9</TD><TD>4</TD><TD>5</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>9</TD><TD>5</TD><TD>0</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>9</TD><TD>5</TD><TD>5</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>9</TD><TD>6</TD><TD>0</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>9</TD><TD>6</TD><TD>5</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>9</TD><TD>7</TD><TD>0</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>9</TD><TD>7</TD><TD>5</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>9</TD><TD>8</TD><TD>0</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>9</TD><TD>8</TD><TD>5</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>9</TD><TD>9</TD><TD>0</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>9</TD><TD>9</TD><TD>5</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>2</TD><TD>0</TD><TD>0</TD><TD>0</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>2</TD><TD>0</TD><TD>0</TD><TD>5</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>2</TD><TD>0</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>0</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>2</TD><TD>0</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>5</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>2</TD><TD>0</TD><TD>2</TD><TD>0</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>2</TD><TD>0</TD><TD>2</TD><TD>5</TD></TR> <TR><TD colspan=130 bgcolor=000000></TD></TR> <TR><TD height=3></TD></TR> <TR><TD>0.1 Topsy</TD><TD colspan=20>1920 from Ringling Br.</TD><TD class=3 colspan=23>- 09.07.42 &#134;</TD><TD colspan=86></TD></TR> <TR><TD height=3></TD></TR> <TR><TD>0.1 Judy</TD><TD colspan=29>1929 - 15.06.58 &#134;</TD><TD class=3 colspan=30></TD><TD colspan=70></TD></TR> <TR><TD height=3></TD></TR> <TR><TD>1.0 Bill</TD><TD colspan=32>1932 - 1939 &#134;</TD><TD class=3 colspan=8></TD><TD colspan=89></TD></TR> <TR><TD height=3></TD></TR> <TR><TD>0.1 Hilda</TD><TD colspan=32>ca. <I>1932</I> - 08.09.38 &#134;</TD><TD class=3 colspan=7></TD><TD colspan=90></TD></TR> <TR><TD height=3></TD></TR> <TR><TD>0.1 Astra</TD><TD colspan=38>30.09.38 - 15.06.58 &#134;</TD><TD class=3 colspan=21></TD><TD colspan=70></TD></TR> <TR><TD height=1></TD></TR><TR><TD colspan=130 bgcolor=C0C0C0 height=1></TD></TR><TR><TD height=1></TD></TR> <TR><TD>0.1 Sue</TD><TD colspan=58>19.06.58 from Ringling Br. - 10.07.85 &#134;</TD><TD class=3 colspan=28></TD><TD colspan=43></TD></TR> <TR><TD height=3></TD></TR> <TR><TD>0.1 Lil</TD><TD colspan=58>19.06.58 from Ringling Br. - 29.12.86 to <A class=n href="../newyork/newyork.htm">New York</A></TD><TD class=3 colspan=29></TD><TD colspan=42></TD></TR> <TR><TD height=2></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> </TD></TR> </TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE><TBODY><TR><A name="History"><TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=995> <TBODY class=bak> <TR> <TD><IMG src="../pics/el.gif"></TD> <TD width="100%" align=center style="background-image: url(../pics/sb.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x"> Information about the Asian elephants at the Prospect Park Zoo in New York</TD> <TD><IMG src="../pics/er.gif"></TD></TR> </TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE class=boz border=0 cellSpacing=5 cellPadding=1 width=995> <TBODY class=all> <TR><TD><B>The tragic death of Hilda</B></TD> <TD rowspan=2><IMG src="hNeYPP01.jpg"></TD></TR> <TR> <TD>Developed from a small menagerie the Prospect Park Zoo in Brooklyn, New York was opened in 1935, at a time when modern zoos began to surround their animal exhibits by water-filled or dry moats instead of bars. Unfortunately the zoo circumscribed its elephant pen by an exaggerated dry concrete moat, 12 ft. wide and 25 ft. deep.<BR>On August 29, 1938, this huge moat became fate to Hilda when the 8-year-old male elephant Bill, in an instant of mad mischief, butted his 7-year-old mate into it. There she laid on crumpled legs, apparently paralyzed. Hilda had been saved from the ditch but she refused to move her hind legs. After several days of grace in the hope that veterinarians could rig up some sort of splint, it was decided that nothing could be done for her and Hilda was shot to death on September 8, 1938, to end her suffering. </TD></TR> </TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE><TBODY><TR><A name="Births"><TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=995> <TBODY class=bak> <TR> <TD><IMG src="../pics/el.gif"></TD> <TD width="100%" align=center style="background-image: url(../pics/sb.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x"> Births of Asian elephants at the Prospect Park Zoo in New York in its history</TD> <TD><IMG src="../pics/er.gif"></TD></TR> </TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE class=boz border=0 cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=1 width=995> <TBODY class=allb> <TR><TD>There has never been born an Asian elephant at this zoo</TD></TR> </TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=995> <TBODY> <TR><TD height=6></TD></TR> <TR><TD class=down align=center height=19> Copyright &#169; 2001 - <SCRIPT>document.write(annee.getYear());</SCRIPT> &nbsp;&nbsp;<A class=i href="http://www.asianelephant.net/" >www.asianelephant.net</A> &nbsp;&nbsp;All rights reserved.</TD></TR> <TR><TD height=5></TD></TR> </TBODY></TABLE></DIV></BODY></HTML>