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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 23 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 8626 captive living elephants (including 915 breeding cows and 309 breeding bulls) , and each of the 2909 location facilities in 123 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 6668 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-leangth 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
europe	northamerica	southamerica	asia	africa	australia

Regional elephant studbooks

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

Elephant breeding topics

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

The 5 Most Recent Elephant Births

Name	Species	Sex	Weight	Birth	Parents	Location
Thong Tawee	EM	F	?	2018-11-04	x Thong Perm	Baan Chang Elephant Park
not named	EM	M	?	2018-10-31	x Phootson	Ayutthaya Royal Elephant Kraal
Pung	EM	F	?	2018-10-13	x Bounnoi	Ayutthaya Royal Elephant Kraal
Kai	EM	F	?	2018-10-09	Rex (Bimbo, Barney) x Asha	Oklahoma City Zoo
Vishwa	EM	M	?	2018-09-30	Gajraj x Laxmi	Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve
Elephants born in: 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 13 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

Name	Species	Sex	Birth	Death	Age	Reason	Location
† Rajesh	EM	M	1979	2018-11-12	39	killed by two wild tuskers	Pansoli elephant camp (Dandeli forest)
† Merru	LA	M	2017-12-00	2018-11-07	1	unknown	David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Nairobi nursery
† Mahimakali	EM	F		2018-11-00	?	unknown	Chitwan Island Jungle Resort
† Maya	EM	F	~1974	2018-10-29	?	unknown	Alexander Scholl
† Nandita	EM	F	2015-08-20	2018-10-25	3	disease Elephant endotheliotropic herpes virus	Chester Zoo
Elephants dead in: 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

Name	Species	Sex	Birth	Age	Location	Arrival	From
Tembo	LA	M	1985-00-00	33	Dresden Zoo	2018-11-13	Berlin-Friedrichsfelde Tierpark
Gandhi	EM	M	2006-03-20	12	La Palmyre Zoo	2018-11-08	Heidelberg Zoo
unknown	EM	F	2018	0	Giritale Elephant Transit Home Medical Centre	2018-11-01
Jothi	EM	F	1982	36	Audubon Zoo	2018-11-00	Buffalo Zoo
Surapa	EM	F	1983	35	Audubon Zoo	2018-11-00	Buffalo Zoo
Elephants transfered in: 2018 \| 2017 \| 2016 \| 2015 \| 2014 \| 2013 \| 2012 \| 2011 \| 2010 \| 2009 \| 2008 \| 2007 \| 2006 \| 2005 \| 2004 \| 2003 \| 2002 \| 2001 \| 2000. Show only Asians, Africans, both

5 Oldest Living Elephants

Age	Name	Species	Sex	Birth	Parents	Location
74	Shirley	EM	F	1944	x	Wild Adventures
70	Ambika	EM	F	1948	x	Smithsonian National Zoological Park
70	Shirley	EM	F	1948	x	Tennessee Elephant Sanctuary (TES)
70	Mysore II	EM	F	1948	x	Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Center for Elephant Conservation
69	Anusha	EM	F	1949	x	Pinnawala elephant orphanage
Show 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 100 oldest elephants in the database which are over 40 years. Show only Asians, only Africans, both
Among oldest dead elephants in the database is Lin wang (min 86), Lakshmikutty (min. 84), Big Gentry Babe (min. 70).