Tuzinka
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Berlin Zoo in Germany

Biography

This record may be a duplicate record with Taku II at Berlin Zoo

☨ ♀ Tuzinka

Identification

EEP nr	3702

Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀ 7 years old
Origin
Born:	* 1937-04-16 captive-born
Birth place:	in Warsaw Zoo (Ogrod Zoologiczny Warsaw)

Parents:	♂ Jas x ♀ Kaska II (Kasia, Katschi)
Death
Dead:	†1944
Death reason:	unknown:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Berlin Zoo, in Germany

Date of arrival

1939-12-00	Berlin Zoo from Kaliningrad Zoo

1939-00-00	Kaliningrad Zoo from Warsaw Zoo (Ogrod Zoologiczny Warsaw)

Record history
History of updates	2025-03-20: casualties

Latest document update	2022-03-09 08:34:18
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This record may be a duplicate record with Taku II at Berlin Zoo

† Tuzinka is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1944 at Berlin Zoo, in Germany, .

Origin

Tuzinka was born captive-born 1937-04-16 at Warsaw Zoo (Ogrod Zoologiczny Warsaw).

Parentage

Parents of Tuzinka are: ♂ Jas (father) and ♀ Kaska II (Kasia, Katschi) (mother).

Pedigree

**Tuzinkas ancestral Pedigree:**
P	I	II	III
Tuzinka	Sire (f): Jas Born: 1926	Sire ff: Born:	Sire fff:
		Sire ff: Born:	Dame ffm:
		Dame fm: Born:	Sire fmf:
		Dame fm: Born:	Dame fmm:
	Dame m: Kaska II (Kasia, Katschi) Born: 1918	Sire mf: Born:	Sire mff:
		Sire mf: Born:	Dame mfm:
		Dame mm: Born:	Sire mmf:
		Dame mm: Born:	Dame mmm:

Comments / pictures

Tuzinka in Berlin Zoo

Transferred to Köningsberg by the order of Lutz Heck, director of Berlin Zoo.

From the zoo's opening to 1945, five female Asian elephants resided at the this location. Several names and most dates are unknown, though it is known, regardless of how many were owned at the time, none survived World War II.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Tuzinka, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Berlin Zoo in Germany. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 18 April 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=299. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

Elephants and Egotists by Patricia Sumerling
Olga Dabrowska, Poznan Zoo, Poland
Article at ShowMe Elephants: <a href="http://showmeelephants.blogspot.com/2011/06/jim-stockley-collection-chipperfields_12.html">"Jim Stockley Collection - Chipperfields 1956"</a>

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List of all recorded elephants in: European studbook for Asian elephants
More elephants from: Berlin Zoo
More elephants from: Germany
More elephants that was born: 1937-04-16
More elephants that died: 1944
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The elephant database startpage. Statistics
List of all captive born elephants in the database

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