Twiggy
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Belgrade Zoo in Serbia

Biography

☨ ♀ Twiggy

Alternative name:	Susan

Identification

EEP nr	7502

Description

Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀ 57 years old
Origin
Born:	* 1966 wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†2023-09-04
Death reason:	unknown:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Belgrade Zoo, in Serbia

Date of arrival

1990-10-15	Belgrade Zoo from Amersfoort Zoo

1977-11-30	Amersfoort Zoo from Belle Vue Zoological Gardens

	Belle Vue Zoological Gardens from Glasgow Zoo

1976-06-00	Glasgow Zoo from Belle Vue Zoological Gardens

1975-01-01	Belle Vue Zoological Gardens from Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park

1969-00-00	Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park 1969-00-00 from Malton Flamingo Land

1968-00-00	Malton Flamingo Land from Wellingborough Zoo

Record history
History of updates	2010-04-21

Latest document update	2023-09-04 12:16:27
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† Twiggy is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 2023-09-04 at Belgrade Zoo, in Serbia, .

Origin

Twiggy was born wild 1966.

Comments / pictures

26.04.1964 WELLINGBOROUGH (known as Susan here)
1968 FLAMINGO LAND
Early 1969 CRICKET ST. THOMAS
ca.1975 BELLE VUE
Jun 1976 GLASGOW
1976/77 BELLE VUE Returned to Belle Vue from Glasgow as they were unable to cope with her behaviour - kept chained during her time there.
30.11.1977 AMERSFOORT
15.10.1990 BELGRADE

Aggressive, attacked keepers in U.K. and Netherlands.

2010-08-08: A man was attacked and seriously injured Thursday by an elephant as he rescued his grandchild who had sneaked into the animals enclosure at the Belgrade Zoo, doctors and local media said. B92 television identified the man as 65-year-old Miroslav Petrovic.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2024). Twiggy, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Belgrade Zoo in Serbia. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 16 April 2024 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=1888. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

Peter Stolk, Netherlands
Bas Alders, Amersfoort Zoo
http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=12277553
Elefanten-wiki on elefanten.wikia.com http://elefanten.wikia.com/wiki/Twiggy (Google Translated version)

Links

Relevant links

Internal relevant links

List of all recorded elephants in: European studbook for Asian elephants
More elephants from: Belgrade Zoo
More elephants from: Serbia
More elephants that was born: 1966
More elephants that died: 2023-09-04
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)

Twiggy at Elewiki, a wiki collaboration on elefanten.wikia.com (In german) HTTP code: 301 it is valid
Link to translated version with Google Translate

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