Sonja
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Warsaw Zoo (Ogrod Zoologiczny Warsaw) in Poland

Sonja was born wild 1945.

Shipped from Colombo, according to EEP studbook.


Contradictory records:

EEP state arrival Tilburg ~ 1958.


1958: August 28 Sonja was transported with ship Puck from Amsterdam via Hamburg to Gdynia harbour in Poland. From there to Warsaw with thain, this trip took almost a week.

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Elephants and Egotists by Patricia Sumerling
• Gerald Postma, Netherlands

Relevant links

Internal relevant links

• List of all recorded elephants in: European studbook for Asian elephants
• More elephants from: Warsaw Zoo (Ogrod Zoologiczny Warsaw)
• More elephants from: Poland
• More elephants that was born: 1945
• More elephants that died: 1999-07-31
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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