African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana)
Sara at Rostock Zoo

† Sara is a dead Female ♀ African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana), , who died at Rostock Zoo, in Germany, from euthanised 2013-11-20. Official death reason described as Cancer.

The Taxidermy remains of this animal is within the Taxidermy collection at Rostock Zoological Institute, in Rostock, Germany, since 2013-00-00.

Origin

Sara was born wild 1962-00-00 at Africa unspecified location, captured 1964 .

Earlier considered to be a forest elephant.

A 50 kg tumor was found in the body.

Sources used for this article is among others:

• The African Forest Elephant and its status in captivity. Part 1: Europe, by Don Cousins, International Zoo News No. 251 (41/2) March 1994. Online list at http://www.zoochat.com/2/african-forest-elephants-completely-gone-zoos-215250/index2.html
• African Elephant Studbook, Europe Regional EEP
  by Amelia Terkel, Zoological center Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Israel

Internal relevant links

• List of all recorded elephants in: European studbook for Asian elephants
• More elephants from: Rostock Zoo
• More elephants from: Germany
• More elephants that was born: 1962-00-00
• More elephants that was captured: 1964
• More elephants that died: 2013-11-20
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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