Tanya IV
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Circo Tihany in Brazil

Biography

☨ ♀ Tanya IV

Identification

Local id Number	4

Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀, unknown age
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:	in Asia unspecified location
Death
Dead:	†
Death reason:	:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Circo Tihany, in Brazil

Date of arrival

1986-00-00	Circo Tihany from Jenda Smaha

Record history
History of updates	2018-03-03

Latest document update	2021-11-14 00:44:43

† Tanya IV is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died at Circo Tihany, in Brazil, .

Origin

Tanya IV was born wild at Asia unspecified location.

Comments / pictures

Fourth Tanya of Jenda Smaha

"Smaha moved his show and family in 1980 to Botswana, South Africa, where Tanya performed at a hotel casino. He fell in love with Africa and dedicated himself to the protection of vanishing Species. He became a good friend of Dr. Helena Fitchat, director of the Center for Rehabilitation of Wildlife in South Africa.
He and his wife retired to Sarasota in 1989 to reunite with many of the friends they had made in show business who also retired there. Tanya was given to a friend who had a circus in Mexico." see http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/LK/20061111/News/605242899/SH/ (By MARK ZALOUDEK Posted Nov 11, 2006)

The fourth went to Circo Tihani in Mexico in 1986

Chang Reynolds files at Circus World, through Ryan Easley

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Tanya IV, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Circo Tihany in Brazil. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 30 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=4700. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

Nestor Maturana
Juan de la Cruz
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/LK/20061111/News/605242899/SH/
Chang Reynolds files at Circus World, through Ryan Easley

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