Sony (Sonny)
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Brijuni Zoo (National Park) in Croatia

Biography

☨ ♂ Sony (Sonny)

Identification

EEP nr	7015

Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Male ♂ 40 years old
Origin
Born:	* 1970 wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†2010-04-02
Death reason:	disease: cardiac arrest
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Brijuni Zoo (National Park), in Croatia

Date of arrival

1972-00-00	Brijuni Zoo (National Park)
Record history
History of updates	2025-03-19: FC

Latest document update	2020-10-18 06:25:24

† Sony (Sonny) is a dead Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 2010-04-02 at Brijuni Zoo (National Park), in Croatia, . Official death reason described as cardiac arrest.

Origin

Sony (Sonny) was born wild 1970.

Comments / pictures

Gift from late Indian leader Indira Gandhi presented to former Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito in 1972.

Sony was among the largest Asian elephants in Europe, with the weight of about 5 - 5,5 Tones.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Sony (Sonny), Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Brijuni Zoo (National Park) in Croatia. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 30 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=1885. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

Litterature about Brijuni Zoo (National Park)

Recommended Litterature:

Random literature As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases

Links

Relevant links

Internal relevant links

List of all recorded elephants in: European studbook for Asian elephants
More elephants from: Brijuni Zoo (National Park)
More elephants from: Croatia
More elephants that was born: 1970
More elephants that died: 2010-04-02
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 Sony (Sonny)

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

About this documentWebsite online since 1995. This document was created: . Latest update: 2020-10-18 06:25:24 included characters with valid HTML5