† Tanya I is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1973 at Hanneford Family Circus, in United States, .
Tanya I was born unknown 1964?.
First Tanya of Jenda Smaha? A Charlestown, South Carolina, news article ("Elephant Steals Vegas Show," The News and Courier, 01/03/1971, p 6-C) states the year and half old Tanya was selected from a Group of babies imported from Bangkok in 1965. The article gives her current age as seven. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AJpIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PgoNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2579%2C414769
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