Jumbo (Jambo)
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Wroclaw Zoo (Zoo Breslau) in Poland

Biography

☨ ♂ Jumbo (Jambo)

Identification

EEP nr	2102

Description

Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Male ♂ 21 years old
Origin
Born:	* 1924 wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†1945-03-30
Death reason:	: shot
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Wroclaw Zoo (Zoo Breslau), in Poland

Date of arrival

1934-11-03	Wroclaw Zoo (Zoo Breslau) from Firma Ruhe

1934-00-00	Firma Ruhe from Hannover Zoo

	Hannover Zoo from Firma Ruhe

Record history
History of updates	2024-02-03

Latest document update	2020-10-18 06:25:24
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† Jumbo (Jambo) is a dead Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1945-03-30 at Wroclaw Zoo (Zoo Breslau), in Poland, . Official death reason described as shot.

Origin

Jumbo (Jambo) was born wild 1924.

Comments / pictures

Contradictory records:

EEP gives an aproximal birth year as 1921

Records about Jumbo (Jambo) from EEPEuropean Studbook for Asian elephants state following records for the asian elephant Jumbo (Jambo):

2102 M ~ Jul 1921 WILD WILD L RUHE ~ 1934 NONE Transfer JUMBO
WROCLAW 3 Nov 1934 H221 Transfer
30 Mar 1945 Death

Source: EEP studbook for Asian elephants online

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2024). Jumbo (Jambo), Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Wroclaw Zoo (Zoo Breslau) in Poland. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 21 November 2024 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=5592. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

EEG Magazine nr 16, Dec 2009, by http://www.elefanten-schutz-europa.de/'>European Elephant Group

Links

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Internal relevant links

List of all recorded elephants in: European studbook for Asian elephants
More elephants from: Wroclaw Zoo (Zoo Breslau)
More elephants from: Poland
More elephants that was born: 1924
More elephants that died: 1945-03-30
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All breeding bulls
The elephant database startpage. Statistics
List of all captive born elephants in the database

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