Elephant Encyclopedia - information and database - established 1995
The Elephant Encyclopedia Welcome to the Elephant encyclopedia and database www.elephant.se , owned and managed by elephant consultant Dan Koehl . (CV (pdf) , ORCID Wikipedia article Blog ) Created in 1995, with over
31 years online, this is the oldest website about elephants, with Elephant encyclopedia sections like Elephant Anatomy (with 45 pages), a section within the The Elephant Glossary (with 296 terms like Free Contact , Protected Contact and No Contact ) and Frequently asked questions about elephants (FAQ) .
The Elephant Database The Elephant Database is the largest online elephant database in the world and also possibly the largest database of animal individual animal records. Updated almost daily it presently presents a total of 17820 elephants of which 9249 are captive living elephants and 688 wild living elephants , from
4133 location facilities
from 125 countries in 6 continent regions , as a neutral unbiased documentation. Theres also records of
7883 dead elephants from living and extinct species, as well as a list of almost 200 fossils and dead speciemens of Proboscideans on display in Museums . For statistics and overview, see summarize and graphical statistics and the latest changes in the elephant database . (RSS ) On most pages sources for the individual records are declared on the bottom of the page, while a more generic presention is compiled at the page about sources and contributors .
The Elephant Person Database There is also a section with 4597 persons affiliated with elephants, from
2039 families, including historic genealogical research, when available and relevant. A new project is a list of people attacked by elephants
See the page about use and search instructions where you learn how to search, find and select records. 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 any of the newstickers you see to the left, which automatically gets updated online from our server.