Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Raja at St Louis Zoo

Location

Raja is a living Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) , located at St Louis Zoo, in United States.

Raja arrived St Louis Zoo 1992-12-27,

In St Louis Zoo, Raja lives together with 8 other elephants with records in this database: (detailed list)

1. ♀ Donna born 1971
,
2. ♀ Ellie born 1971
,
3. ♀ Jade born 2007-02-25
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4. ♀ Maliha born 2006-08-02
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5. ♀ Pearl born 1971
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6. ♀ Priya born 2013-04-26
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7. ♀ Rani born 1996-07-05
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8. ♀ Sri born 1980
, (see detailed list).

Offspring

Total: 7 babies

1. (F) 2005-11-19 -- † 2005-11-19 stillborn fetus still in utero SSP id: 636
2. (F) 2006-08-02 Maliha SSP id: 642
3. (F) 2007-02-25 Jade SSP id: 646
4. (F) 2010-07-08 -- † 2010-07-08 miscarriage SSP id: 707
5. (F) 2011-06-24 -- † 2018-02-24 Kenzi SSP id: 737
6. (F) 2013-04-26 Priya SSP id: 749
7. (M) 2020-07-06 -- † 2020-08-02 Avi SSP id: 00

Origin

Raja was born captive-born 1992-12-27 at St Louis Zoo.

Parentage

Parents of Raja are: ♂ Onyx (Big Mac) (father) and ♀ Pearl (mother).

Siblings through the father Onyx (Big Mac):

1. 1985-06-12 -- † 1985-06-12 (F) noname
2. 1990-10-11(F) Shanti
3. 1991-07-26 -- † 1993-02-28 (F) Maiya (Kate)
4. 1992-09-07 -- † 1992-09-07 (M) stillborn
5. 1995-02-02(F) Asha
6. 1996-07-02(F) Chandra
7. 1997-09-06 -- † 1997-09-06 (M) stillborn
8. 1998-05-17 -- † 2000-11-29 (M) Kala
9. 1999-11-28 -- † 2002-06-07 (M) Haji
10. 2000-04-12 -- † 2000-04-12 (M) Pete
11. 2000-11-03 -- † 2007-06-08 (F) Hansa

Pedigree

Article and Image: "St. Louis Zoo - Kinzi" at ShowMe Elephants, 07/08/2011
Article and Image: "The Father's Photographs - St. Louis Zoo" at ShowMe Elephants, 09/13/2011

Sources used for this article is among others:

• "Happy Birthday, Raja!" Elephant-News.com, 2009-12-27
  
• Elefanten-wiki on elefanten.wikia.com http://elefanten.wikia.com/wiki/Raja_(St.Louis) (Google Translated version)

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: St Louis Zoo
• More elephants from: United States
• More elephants that was born: 1992-12-27
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

External relevant links (Opens in new window)

• Raja at Elewiki, a wiki collaboration on elefanten.wikia.com (In german) HTTP code: 301 it is valid
• Link to translated version with Google Translate

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