Carolyn at St Louis Zoo
| † Carolyn | ID Number: | SSP Number: 237 - |
|---|---|
| Species: | Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) |
| Sex and age: | Female ♀ 32 years old |
| Dead date: | † 2000-04-11 |
| Death reason: | disease: Pyelonephritis, Elephant TB (Mycobacterium tuberculosis), arthritis |
| Location: | St Louis Zoo |
| Arrived | St Louis Zoo 1991-09-26 from Dickerson Park Zoo Dickerson Park Zoo 1990-03-28 from St Louis Zoo St Louis Zoo 1968-11-10 from |
| Born: | 1968 wild |
| Document updated | 2009-03-02: Death, Text 2012-01-11: text |
| For eighteen months, Pearl and Carolyn were sent on breeding loan to breed with the Dickerson Park Zoo's dominant bull Onyx. While both came back pregnant, only Pearl carried her calf to term, Onyx's only male calf to live past the age of three. *BOX Pyelonephritis was proximal cause of death (a young elephant)Henry Melvyn Richardson, DVM */BOX Sources, among others
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