Thai
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Zurich Zoo in Switzerland

Location

Thai is a living Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) , located at the Zurich Zoo, in Switzerland.

Thai arrived in 2014-08-12 to the Zurich Zoo, relocated from the Heidelberg Zoo, in Germany.

1. ♀ Ceyla (Ceyla-Himali) born 1975-07-01
2. ♀ Chandra born 2002-05-14
3. ♀ Farha born 2005-05-03
4. ♀ Indi born 1986-02-28

Offspring

Total: 6 babies

1. (F) 2017-02-25 -- † 2022-07-23 Ruwani EEP id: 201705
2. (M) 2020-02-05 -- † 2022-06-29 Umesh EEP id: 202002
3. (M) 2020-02-05 -- † 2022-06-28 Umesh EEP id: 202002
4. (F) 2020-04-05 unnnamed EEP id: 202008
5. (M) 2020-08-19 -- † 2020-08-19 Unnamed EEP id: 202012? (EEP nr N/A)
6. (M) 2023-01-15 -- † 2023-01-15 Unnamed EEP id: 202301? (not confirmed)

Origin

Thai was born captive-born 2004-11-26 at Carl Hagenbecks Tierpark (Stellingen).

Parentage

Siblings through the father Hussein:

1. 1992-03-23(F) Ratna
2. 1995-12-25 -- † 2000-12-30 (M) Tharun
3. 1996-01-09 -- † 1996-01-09 (M) stillborn
4. 1996-06-04(F) Corny
5. 1996-07-01(F) Indra (Salvana)
6. 1996-10-17 -- † 1996-10-17 (M) stillborn
7. 1999-11-27(F) Sandry
8. 2001-11-09 -- † 2001-11-09 (M) noname
9. 2003-05-14(F) Kandy
10. 2003-06-22 -- † 2003-06-22 (M) stillborn
11. 2007-04-11(F) Shila
12. 2008-11-21(M) Shah Rukh
13. 2009-07-03(F) Rani
14. 2012-04-13(M) Assam

Siblings through the mother Thura:

1. 1992-03-23(F) Ratna
2. 1995-12-25 - † 2000-12-30 (M) Tharun
3. 2001-11-09 - † 2001-11-09 (M) noname
4. 2009-07-03(F) Rani
5. 2016-01-28 - † 2016-01-28 () miscarriage
6. 2018-03-00 - † 2018-03-00 (unknown) aborted

Pedigree

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

Relevant links

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: Zurich Zoo
• More elephants from: Switzerland
• More elephants that was born: 2004-11-26
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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