Siporex
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Hannover Zoo in Germany

Siporex was born captive-born 1966-06-21 at Aalborg Zoo (Aalborg Zoologiske Have).

Siporex was sponsored from the concrete factory SIPOREX in Denmark

1988-06-16: While he was still in free-contact, Siporex attacked the head elephantkeeper Rolf Amelung badly during training performance. After this he was kept off-hand, and got worse Feet.

According to Rolf Amelung he was about 3,24 meters high by shoulders.

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Rolf Amelung, head elephantkeeper, Hannover Zoo
  
• Zooelefant.de (Christian Remenyi)
  
• Elephants and Egotists by Patricia Sumerling
  
• Christoffer Brack, Wüppertal, Germany. Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100073098771893

Relevant links

Internal relevant links

• List of all recorded elephants in: European studbook for Asian elephants
• More elephants from: Hannover Zoo
• More elephants from: Germany
• More elephants that was born: 1966-06-21
• More elephants that died: 1999-11-23
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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