Fuku-chan
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Fukuyama Zoo in Japan

Biography

Fuku-chan is a living sick Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) , located at the Fukuyama Zoo, in Japan.

Fuku-chan arrived in 2001-04-28 to the Fukuyama Zoo, relocated from the Borneo unspecified location, in Malaysia.

In Fukuyama Zoo, Fuku-chan lives as single living elephant at this location

Fuku-chan was born wild 1998 at Borneo unspecified location, captured at Borneo.

2016-03-10: Fuku - chan was diagnosed by LAMP with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. later she was diognosed for M. caprae.

2018-10-16: Treatment of Tuberculosis with four anti-tuberculosis drugs was completed after 1 year and 6 months treatment period.

2018-11-04: weight: 2680 kgs

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Jonas Livet, France
  
• Yasuhiko Mukai, Japan
  
  
  

Relevant links

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: Fukuyama Zoo
• More elephants from: Japan
• More elephants that was born: 1998
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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