Frida
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Quilpue Zoo (El Parque Zoológico de Quilpué) in Chile

Biography

☨ ♀ Frida

Identification


Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀

People killed:	1
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†2011-09-06?
Death reason:	anesthesia: Elephant Elephant TB (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) (Mycobacterium tuberculosis)
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Quilpue Zoo (El Parque Zoológico de Quilpué), in Chile

Date of arrival

1998-00-00	Quilpue Zoo (El Parque Zoológico de Quilpué) from Circus Aguilas (Circo Aguilas)

Record history
History of updates	0000-00-00

Latest document update	2025-03-16 15:47:18

† Frida is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 2011-09-06? at Quilpue Zoo (El Parque Zoológico de Quilpué), in Chile, . Official death reason described as Elephant Elephant TB (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) (Mycobacterium tuberculosis).

Casualties

1 casualties

1996-06-01: visitor Rodiguo Silva fatal attack by Frida. slapped a boy and knocked him to the ground during a circus appearance in the northern Chilean town of Iquique. † Rodiguo Silva Died 1996-06-01

Origin

Frida was born wild .

Comments / pictures

Frida died from a multisystemic failure caused by an aggravated Tuberculosis that having been developed for at least 10 years.

June 1, 1996: A Circus elephant named Frieda slapped a boy and knocked him to the ground during a circus appearance in the northern Chilean town of Iquique. The boy, 10-year-old Rodiguo Silva, died later in the hospital of multiple Skull traumas.

Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/barbarilla/2219175530/

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Frida, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Quilpue Zoo (El Parque Zoológico de Quilpué) in Chile. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 30 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=1743. (archived at the Wayback machine)