Batir (Skeeter)
African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) at
North Carolina Zoo in United States

Batir (Skeeter) lives together with 5 other elephants at the North Carolina Zoo: (detailed list)

1. ♂ CSar (Flapjack) born 1974
2. ♂ Louie born 2003-04-30
3. ♀ Rafiki born 1981
4. ♀ Samantha (Nekhanda) born 1988
5. ♀ Tonga born 1978

Batir (Skeeter) was born captive-born 2002-01-21 at Riddles Elephant and Wildlife Sanctuary.

Siblings through the father Willie:

1. 2003-04-16 -- † 2018-12-12 (M) Max (Maximus)
2. 2007-12-08 -- † 2019-02-09 (F) Miss Bets
3. 2008-03-19(M) Samson

Pedigree

Artie, Tonga and her daughter Batir were sold to the North Carolina Zoo in October 2007. They were transported by Eddie Novak and subsequently transitioned to Protected Contact at the new facility. During the transport Skeeter broke off a tusk, which was later surgically removed after a failed repair effort.

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Ryan Easley, USA
• "NC State Veterinarians Help a Young Elephant at NC Zoo," Elephant-News.com, 01/26/2009
• The Elephants of the Watani Grasslands
• "Really Big Tooth Extraction," Russlings, 2009-09-10

Recommended Litterature:

Relevant links

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: North Carolina Zoo
• More elephants from: United States
• More elephants that was born: 2002-01-21
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

External relevant links (Opens in new window)

Search more on the web for Batir (Skeeter)

(The name Batir (Skeeter) is already submitted into the link, just click on the link for relevant results)

• elephant-news.com
• Billboard
• Buckles Blog
• circushistory.org
• Elephant_Commentator
• Elefanten-Fotolexikon.eu
• elefanten.wikia
• Google Internet search
• Google Books
• ShowMe Elephants
• ZooChat
• ZooChat