Trompita (Bombi)
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
La Aurora Zoo in Guatemala

♀ Trompita (Bombi)
Identification
Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀ 64 years old
Management:	Unknown
Origin
Born:	* 1961 wild
Birth place:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	La Aurora Zoo, in Guatemala
Date of arrival
2008-03-00	La Aurora Zoo from Rex Circus (Romeo Lopez)
1968-00-00	Rex Circus (Romeo Lopez) from Circo Bell
Record history
History of updates	2022-05-15
Latest document update	2020-10-18 06:25:24

Biography

Trompita (Bombi) is a living Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) , located at the La Aurora Zoo, in Guatemala.

Trompita (Bombi) arrived in 2008-03-00 to the La Aurora Zoo, relocated from the Rex Circus (Romeo Lopez), in Guatemala.

In La Aurora Zoo, Trompita (Bombi) lives as single living elephant at this location

Trompita (Bombi) was born wild 1961.

This animal was donated for the Bells Brothers Circus from Mexico to the Rex Circus in Guatemala in 1968. Mister Romeo Lopez take care of the animal for 39 years working in several Circus and shows. He decided to let the care of the animal in the hands of the La Aurora National Zoological Park in March of 2008.Claudia Lorena Quan Rodas

Romeo Lopez -- better known in the circus world as "Tarzan Lopez" -- said that the elephant and he had been together since they were both 7 years old.

"We grew up together and have a special connection," he said.

Since their early years, the pair have grown up, cried and laughed together, and there's an unspoken bond between them, according to Lopez. When the circus was forced to shut down, they offered him $300,000 for Trompita, "but I would have felt like Judas. I couldn't sell her."

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References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Claudia Lorena Quan Rodas, Technical Department, La Aurora Zoo
  
• Elefanten-wiki on elefanten.wikia.com http://elefanten.wikia.com/wiki/Arna (Google Translated version)

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Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: La Aurora Zoo
• More elephants from: Guatemala
• More elephants that was born: 1961
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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• 2017-02-20: Elephant blows out 56 candles on birthday cake - Elephant News
• Trompita (Bombi) at Elewiki, a wiki collaboration on elefanten.wikia.com (In german) HTTP code: 301 it is valid
• Link to translated version with Google Translate

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