Deceased elephants at Erfurt Zoo in Germany


This database list 9 dead elephants

Nr Sex Species Name Id Status Arrival locationImport
1+ ♀ LA Akili EEP id: 20007 12Born: captive-born 2001-05-02
Ndume x Simba
Dead:2013-12-13, euthanised collapsed during the night		2013-10-16 Sigean Zoo
2+ ♀ EM Sita 9Born: wild 1968 Dead:1977 (7 years after arrival), disease circulatory failure1970-00-00
3+ ♀ EM Bombay 15Born: wild 1967 Dead:1982 (12 years after arrival), disease food poisining1970-00-00
4+ ♀ EM Olympia 34Born: wild 1930 Dead:1964, accident broke the neck after being pushed into the drymoat1963-00-00 Circus Busch-Nürnberg (Jakob Busch)
5+ ♀ EM Carla 54Born: wild 1925 Dead:1979 (16 years after arrival), age 1963-00-00 Circus Busch-Nürnberg (Jakob Busch)
6+ ♀ EM Jenny 50Born: wild 1915 Dead:1965 (2 years after arrival), age 1963-00-00 Circus Busch-Nürnberg (Jakob Busch)
7+ ♂ EM Assam 10Born: wild 1960 Dead:1970-05-14 (8 years after arrival), euthanised aggressive, shot1962-02-23 George Munro1962?
8+ ♀ LA Marina 46Born: wild 1957 Dead:2003-07-30 (43 years after arrival), age 1960-07-28 Gangala-na-Bodio Elephant Domestication Center
9+ ♀ EM Kandy (Kendy) 29Born: wild 1946 Dead:1975, disease food poisining Circus Aeros

Source for the list of elephants deceased at Erfurt Zoo

Reference list

Facts about Deceased elephants at Erfurt Zoo in Germany, Elephant Encyclopedia, Koehl, D. (2025), available online retrieved 29 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=22 (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this list:

Latest updateName of elephantSource (if it is a website, the target website will open in new window)
2013-12-17 Akili:• http://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/erfurter-zoo-trauer-um-elefantendame-1.1843764
2010-11-21 Assam:• Birth year: Documentation 2002 - Elephants in European Zoos and Safari Parks published by European Elephant Group: Haufellner, Schilfarth, Schweiger
•  http://www.tiergarten.com/forum.php?go=view&BeitragsID=863&thema=&subthema=&subsub=
2010-11-21 Jenny:• Birth and death year: Documentation 2002 - Elephants in European Zoos and Safari Parks published by European Elephant Group: Haufellner, Schilfarth, Schweiger
•  Page 117-123,
Jumbo auf dem Drahtseil - Elefanten dressuren von gestern und heute by Gerhard Zapf
2010-11-21 Olympia:• Birth and death year: Documentation 2002 - Elephants in European Zoos and Safari Parks published by European Elephant Group: Haufellner, Schilfarth, Schweiger
•  Page 117-123,
Jumbo auf dem Drahtseil - Elefanten dressuren von gestern und heute by Gerhard Zapf
2010-11-21 Carla:• Birth abd death year: Documentation 2002 - Elephants in European Zoos and Safari Parks published by European Elephant Group: Haufellner, Schilfarth, Schweiger
•  Page 117-123,
Jumbo auf dem Drahtseil - Elefanten dressuren von gestern und heute by Gerhard Zapf
2010-11-21 Kandy (Kendy):• Birth and death year, death cause: Documentation 2002 - Elephants in European Zoos and Safari Parks published by European Elephant Group: Haufellner, Schilfarth, Schweiger
•  Page 192,
Jumbo auf dem Drahtseil - Elefanten dressuren von gestern und heute by Gerhard Zapf
2010-11-21 Bombay:• Page 107, Documentation 2002 - Elephants in European Zoos and Safari Parks published by European Elephant Group: Haufellner, Schilfarth, Schweiger
2010-11-21 Sita:• Page 107, Documentation 2002 - Elephants in European Zoos and Safari Parks published by European Elephant Group: Haufellner, Schilfarth, Schweiger
2009-05-18 Marina:• Dr. Norbert Neuschulz (director of Thueringer Zoopark in Erfurt 1990-2007) through Mrs Gudrun Koball from Erfurt

Erfurt Zoo on elephant-news.com

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2006-01-02Day in pictures - Elephant News


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