Anton
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Hamburg Zoo (Zoologischer Garten Hamburg) in Germany

Biography

☨ ♂ Anton


Identification


Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Male ♂, unknown age
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†
Death reason:	euthanised: strangulated?
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Hamburg Zoo (Zoologischer Garten Hamburg), in Germany

Date of arrival

	Hamburg Zoo (Zoologischer Garten Hamburg)
Record history
History of updates	2020-09-27

Latest document update	2020-10-18 06:25:24
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† Anton is a dead Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died at Hamburg Zoo (Zoologischer Garten Hamburg), in Germany, . Official death reason described as strangulated?.

Origin

Anton was born wild .

Comments / pictures

Eventually this elephant bull was killed through strangulation:

Knauer, F., Der Zoologische Garten, Deutsche Naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, Leipzig, 1914.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Anton, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Hamburg Zoo (Zoologischer Garten Hamburg) in Germany. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 30 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=4124. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

Page 62, Hagenbeck. Ein zoologisches Paradies (Hardcover)
by Klaus Gille
Knauer, F., Der Zoologische Garten, Deutsche Naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, Leipzig, 1914.

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