Siporex
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Hannover Zoo in Germany

Biography

☨ ♂ Siporex
Sipoorex under training by head elephant keeper Rolf Amelung. Photo: Christoffer Brack, Wüppertal, Germany. Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100073098771893, 1981

Identification

EEP nr	6610

Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Male ♂ 33 years old
Body height:	3.24 meter, 10.6 feet
Origin
Born:	* 1966-06-21 captive-born
Birth place:	in Aalborg Zoo (Aalborg Zoologiske Have)

Parents:	♂ Frank x ♀ Lene (Lena)
Death
Dead:	†1999-11-23
Death reason:	anesthesia: foot problemss
Offspring
Total: 1 babies

1. Born 1985-02-18 (dead † 1985-02-18)	♀ stillborn EEP id: 8512
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Hannover Zoo, in Germany

Date of arrival

1973-10-03	Hannover Zoo from Aalborg Zoo (Aalborg Zoologiske Have)

Record history
History of updates	2025-03-17:

Latest document update	2021-10-28 07:16:51
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† Siporex is a dead Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1999-11-23 at Hannover Zoo, in Germany, . Official death reason described as foot problemss.

Casualties

1 casualties

1988-06: elephant keeper Rolf Amelung attacked by Siporex. badly during training performance. Rolf Amelung Survived. Disabled pensioner.

Offspring

Total: 1 babies

(F) 1985-02-18 -- † 1985-02-18 stillborn EEP id: 8512

Origin

Siporex was born captive-born 1966-06-21 at Aalborg Zoo (Aalborg Zoologiske Have).

Parentage

Parents of Siporex are: ♂ Frank (father) and ♀ Lene (Lena) (mother).

Pedigree

**Siporexs ancestral Pedigree:**
P	I	II	III
Siporex	Sire (f): Frank Born: 1955	Sire ff: Born:	Sire fff:
		Sire ff: Born:	Dame ffm:
		Dame fm: Born:	Sire fmf:
		Dame fm: Born:	Dame fmm:
	Dame m: Lene (Lena) Born: 1950	Sire mf: Born:	Sire mff:
		Sire mf: Born:	Dame mfm:
		Dame mm: Born:	Sire mmf:
		Dame mm: Born:	Dame mmm:

Comments / pictures

Siporex was sponsored from the concrete factory SIPOREX in Denmark

1988-06-16: While he was still in free-contact, Siporex attacked the head elephantkeeper Rolf Amelung badly during training performance. After this he was kept off-hand, and got worse Feet.

According to Rolf Amelung he was about 3,24 meters high by shoulders.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Siporex, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Hannover Zoo in Germany. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 29 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=277. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

Rolf Amelung, head elephantkeeper, Hannover Zoo
http://www.zooelefant.de/" target='_blank'>Zooelefant.de (Christian Remenyi)
Elephants and Egotists by Patricia Sumerling
Christoffer Brack, Wüppertal, Germany. Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100073098771893

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List of all recorded elephants in: European studbook for Asian elephants
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More elephants that was born: 1966-06-21
More elephants that died: 1999-11-23
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