Saigon
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Sydney Zoo (Bungarribee) in Australia

Biography

☨ ♀ Saigon
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Identification

ASMP nr	00

Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀ maybe about 64 years old (estimated age)
Characteristics:	dermoid cysts on elbows
Origin
Born:	* 1958? wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†2022-02-00
Death reason:	euthanised: geriatric muscular atrophy
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Sydney Zoo (Bungarribee), in Australia

Date of arrival

2019-12-01	Sydney Zoo (Bungarribee) from Sydney Zoo

2019-12-01	Sydney Zoo from Perry Brothers Circus

	Perry Brothers Circus from Sydney Zoo

	Sydney Zoo from Mayfields Kennels and Zoo (H.H. de Souza)

Record history
History of updates	2025-03-18:

Latest document update	2022-06-20 04:36:51
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† Saigon is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 2022-02-00 at Sydney Zoo (Bungarribee), in Australia, . Official death reason described as geriatric muscular atrophy.

Origin

Saigon was born wild 1958?.

Comments / pictures

Others in that shipment were quarantined at Taronga including two for Perry Bros Circus – Burma and Saigon. Saigon remains in the Perry family and is the sole remaining privately owned elephant in Australia other than the Bullen trio at Australia Zoo.
Steve Robinson.

Saigon in Sydney Zoo (Bungarribee) Picture of Saigon when she lived on a farm in Ned Kelly country (Benalla / Greta South) after retirement from the Circus. (The Stratford Elephant Mystery by Gavin Donoghue)

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Saigon, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Sydney Zoo (Bungarribee) in Australia. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 30 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=2281. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

Steve Robinson, Australia
Ray Ryan, Australia
https://sydneyzoo.com/saigons-story
Donoghue, Gavan: The Stratford Elephant Mystery

Litterature about Sydney Zoo (Bungarribee)

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