Ceylon
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Circus Krone in Germany

Biography

☨ ♀ Ceylon

Identification


Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀ 35 years old
Status:	foot problems
Origin
Born:	* 1942 wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†1977
Death reason:	euthanised:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Circus Krone, in Germany

Date of arrival

1949-00-00	Circus Krone
Record history
History of updates	2024-05-21:

Latest document update	2020-10-18 06:25:24
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† Ceylon is a dead foot problems Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1977 at Circus Krone, in Germany, .

Origin

Ceylon was born wild 1942.

Comments / pictures

died Summer 1977. She last half of her tail and had bad hind legs, couldn't move good.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Ceylon, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Circus Krone in Germany. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 30 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=1501. (archived at the Wayback machine)

EEG Magazine nr 19, July 2011, by http://www.elefanten-schutz-europa.de/'>European Elephant Group

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