Mida
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Kolmarden Zoo in Sweden

Biography

☨ ♀ Mida
Mida and dan Koehl, Kolmarden 2000

Identification

EEP nr	8511

Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀ 27 years old
Origin
Born:	* 1975 wild
Birth place:	in Asia unspecified location
Death
Dead:	†2002-02-11
Death reason:	euthanised: Positive Elephant Elephant TB (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) trunk-wash test
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Kolmarden Zoo, in Sweden

Date of arrival

1985-02-16	Kolmarden Zoo from Circus Corty Althoff

1979-00-00	Circus Corty Althoff from Dressurschule Wagner

Record history
History of updates	2024-11-30: text 2025-03-18: PC

Latest document update	2021-11-20 13:15:31
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† Mida is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 2002-02-11 at Kolmarden Zoo, in Sweden, . Official death reason described as Positive Elephant Elephant TB (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) trunk-wash test.

Affiliated people

1: Dan Koehl (elephant keeper from 2000 to 2000 )

Origin

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Mida, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Kolmarden Zoo in Sweden. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 29 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=135. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Asian Elephant Studbook, Europe Regional EEP, 2011 by Rob Belterman, Martin van Wees
Kolmarden Zoo records, Sven Mellgren
Dornbusch, Tobias; Elefanten in den Althoff-Circussen, Elefanten-Magazin, Heft 24/2013, https://www.elefanten-schutz-europa.de/Veroeffentlichungen/Magazin/Magazin-21-25/

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