African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana)
Bette at International Conservation Center

Location

Bette is a living Female ♀ African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) , located at International Conservation Center, in United States.

Bette arrived International Conservation Center 2009-07-08, relocated from Philadelphia Zoo, in United States.

In International Conservation Center, Bette lives together with 3 other elephants with records in this database: (detailed list)

1. ♂ Jack (Jackson) born 1976
,
2. ♀ Seeni born 1993
,
3. ♀ Sukiri born 1993
, (see detailed list).

Origin

Bette was born wild 1982, captured 1984 . and imported 1984, Air, private Boeing 707

Tim Hendrickson sold both of his elephants, Bette and Kallie, to the Philadelphia Zoo in April 2004. They were later slated to be transferred to the Pittsburgh Zoo's new breeding facility with a third African elephant Petal. Petal died in June 2008, and the two cows were moved across Pennsylvania thirteen months later.

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Bret Bronson
• Ryan Easley, USA

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: International Conservation Center
• More elephants from: United States
• More elephants that was born: 1982
• More elephants that was captured: 1984
• More elephants that was imported: 1984
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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