27 March 2019
Now intensively researching how to get the database queries to work with php7. //Dan


The elephant database

Elephant information and database since 1995

Welcome to www.elephant.se and The Elephant Database. owned and managed by elephant trainer and consultant Dan Koehl. Please like this website on Facebook

With 24 years online, this is the oldest and largest online elephant database in the world and also possibly the largest database of animal individuals. Updated almost daily it presents 8656 captive living elephants , and each of the 2938 location facilities hundreds of countries in 6 continent regions, as a neutral unbiased documentation. Above you can either search for an elephants name, a location name or for a certain country. You can also use the navigation links on top, on "database" you can choose births and deaths for any given year 1880-today from the list of 6736 dead elephants from both species..

Click on a country to see overview of statistical number and the category of different locations within the country

When you click on a location: four different category tabs let you choose how much, and what you want to see: (the tabs also show how many individuals are within each category) Location info contains basic records and history about a location, present give an overview over the elephants living on the location now, births list the elephants which was born on the location, deaths the one that died there, and total gives a full-length list of all elephants which was ever at the location.

Elephants with unknown present or death location, origin, birth or previous location, are listed on the fictional location unknown location. If you have any information regarding their whereabouts, please contact us.

Click on every elephant to see the individual presentaton with history on present and past locations, and see eventual existing and documented parentage and offspring

There are also a number of sections with different data sorts, like regional studbooks and breeding, transfer and relocations of elephants, births and deaths, disease and longevity, and year lists from 1880-today. You can also see the list of elephant mankillers, list of elephant names, summarize and graphical statistics and the latest changes in the elephant database. (RSS) Please contact us if you find any errors in this database or would like to share any news of elephant births, deaths, or transfers. If you have a website, blog or similair, you can put the newsticker you see to the right, which automatically gets updated with the 10 latest births:

  Just copy the code below, and paste it where you want the newsticker:
    


The database overview with numbers from 6 regions with elephant exhibiting countries
europenorthamericasouthamericaasiaafricaaustralia

Regional elephant lists

American studbook * Australasian Region Asian Elephant Studbook * European studbook * Japanese studbook * captive elephants from Andaman Islands, India * captive elephants from Karnataka, India * captive elephants from Kerala, India, and captive elephants from Tamil Nadu, India * Orphans at David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya

Elephant breeding topics

elephant breeding overview and list of pregnant females * birth weights * stillbirths * castrated bulls * artificial insemination

The 6736 Most Recent Elephant Births

NameSpeciesSexWeightBirthParentsLocation
† notnamedEMF?2018-12-06 x PhoebeColumbus Zoo and Aquarium
notnamedEMunknown?2018-11-25 x NampheungAyutthaya Royal Elephant Kraal
Thong TaweeEMF?2018-11-04 x Thong PermBaan Chang Elephant Park
Wiset Khun ChonEMM?2018-10-31 x PhootsonAyutthaya Royal Elephant Kraal
PungEMF?2018-10-13 x BounnoiAyutthaya Royal Elephant Kraal
Elephants born in: 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001
Show only Asians, only Africans, both or 12 pregnant captive elephants | All stillbirths		The latest births of elephants
on your website!

Reasons for elephant deaths

euthanised * poisoned * falling into moats * mankillers various diseases like arthritis * elephant pox * cancer * colic * herpesvirus * pneumonia * rabies * tetanus * tuberculosis * Viral EMC - Elephant Encephalomyocarditis virus

The 5 Most Recent Elephant Deaths

NameSpeciesSexBirthDeathAgeReasonLocation
† Masa LA F 1969-12-01 2019-09-04 50 euthanised
 Howletts Wild Animal Park
† Chand EM M 1992-01-10 2019-09-01? 27 unknown
officiall claim in media: heat stroke		 The Lion Circus (Niranjan Sarker)
† Beulah Mae EM F 1967 2019-09-00 52 unknown
 R.W. Commerford and Sons Traveling Petting Zoo (Robert Commerford)
† Juliee EM F 2007? 2019-08-26 12 disease
acute abdominal colic?		 Nandankanan Zoo
† Robin LA F 1970 2019-08-21? 49 unknown
 Riverbanks Zoological Park
Elephants dead in: 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000. Show only Asians, Africans, both

The 5 Most Recent Elephant Transfers

NameSpeciesSexBirthAgeLocationArrivalFrom
Ashoka EM M ? Balle Elephant Camp (Kabini) 2018-12-07Nagarhole National Park
Salia EM F 2006-02-2813 Elephant Special Tours 2018-12-06TECC hospital Lampang (Thai Elephant Conservation Center Hospital)
Sana Sana LA F ? David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Ithumba 2018-12-04David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Nairobi nursery
Ndiwa LA F ? David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Ithumba 2018-12-04David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Nairobi nursery
Malkia LA F ? David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Ithumba 2018-12-04David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Nairobi nursery
Elephants transfered in: 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000. Show only Asians, Africans, both

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