Bandara an Asian elephant at Calgary Zoo

Bandara. Calgary Zoo 1983. Photo: © Dinny's Digest, courtesy of Brent Van Hooft

☨ Bandara

ID nr:

EEP Number: 7508 - SSP Number: 144 -

Species:

Asian elephant

Sex and age:

Male ♂ 16 years old

Dead date:

Death reason:

disease: congestive heart failure

Location:

Arrival

Born:

* 1975-05-25 wild Sri Lanka

Imported:

Offspring, year of birth, year of death:

Document updated

2008-12-28: EEP, Death RE
2009-02-28: Text RE
2009-03-04: Image RE
2010-12-31: Cause of Death RE

Kamala, Swarna and a bull who died in 1991, Bandara, all arrived at the Calgary Zoo in May 1976 from the Sri Lanka National Zoo.

Koehl, D., (2020). Bandara, an Asian at Calgary Zoo in Canada. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 28 October 2020 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=428. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Brent Van Hooft, Elephant Keeper Calgary Zoo
"Table 4: Captive Elephants 1988-1999 and Additions to 1980-1988 Records," Elephant, The Publication of the Elephant Research Foundation, Vol 2 No 4, January 2000. p 65-71

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