Flora
African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) at
Port Saint-Pere Zoo (Planete sauvage) in France

Biography

☨ ♀ Flora
Andy Hayton with elephant Flora in Longleat

Identification

EEP nr	8803

Description
Species:	African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana)
Sex and age:	Female ♀ 34 years old
Status:	confiscated
Origin
Born:	* 1988 wild
Birth place:	in Zimbabwe unspecified location
Death
Dead:	†2022-02-19
Death reason:	unknown: fracture in leg?
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Port Saint-Pere Zoo (Planete sauvage), in France

Date of arrival

2003-04-10	Port Saint-Pere Zoo (Planete sauvage) from Dudley Zoo

1998-01-26	Dudley Zoo from Twycross Zoo

	Twycross Zoo from Longleat Safari Park

	Longleat Safari Park from Mary Chipperfield’s Circus

1988-00-00	Mary Chipperfield’s Circus from Longleat Safari Park

	Longleat Safari Park from Zimbabwe unspecified location

Record history
History of updates	2018-05-29: updated prev location: Longleat 2022-02-22: Updated as dead 2022-02-28: Born in Zimbabwe

Latest document update	2022-02-28 06:02:14

† Flora is a dead confiscated Female ♀ African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana), , who died 2022-02-19 at Port Saint-Pere Zoo (Planete sauvage), in France, . Official death reason described as fracture in leg?.

Origin

Flora was born wild 1988 at Zimbabwe unspecified location.

Comments / pictures

Flora was bullied and went temporarily to Twycross then Dudley joining their loan African 'Flossie'. When Dudley stopped keeping elephants they were transferred to Planet Sauvage in France.
Mark Achurch, Oxford, United Kingdom

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Flora, African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) located at Port Saint-Pere Zoo (Planete sauvage) in France. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 23 April 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=3598. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

Mark Achurch, Oxford, United Kingdom
Andy Hayton
African Elephant Studbook, Europe Regional EEP
by Amelia Terkel, Zoological center Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Israel

Litterature about Port Saint-Pere Zoo (Planete sauvage)

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List of all recorded elephants in: European studbook for Asian elephants
More elephants from: Port Saint-Pere Zoo (Planete sauvage)
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More elephants that died: 2022-02-19
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