Giant
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Seoul Grand Park Zoo in South Korea

Giant was born wild 1951.

At the time of his death, Giant was believed to be the oldest animal in Korea at the age of 58. He was bought from Thailand in 1955 and donated to the Changgyeong Palace Zoo, predecessor to Seoul Grand Park.

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Ryan Easley, USA
• John M. Regan, USA
• Korea’s oldest animal dies peacefully at the age of 58, 2009-03-10

Recommended Litterature:

Relevant links

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: Seoul Grand Park Zoo
• More elephants from: South Korea
• More elephants that was born: 1951
• More elephants that died: 2009-03-09
• 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 Giant

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

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