Shawu an African savanna elephant at La Teste Zoo du Bassin d´Arcachon

Location

Shawu is a Male ♂ African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana), living in La Teste Zoo du Bassin d´Arcachon, in France.

Shawu arrived in La Teste Zoo du Bassin d´Arcachon 2016-04-26, relocated from Beekse Bergen Safaripark, in Netherlands.

In La Teste Zoo du Bassin d´Arcachon, Shawu lives together with 2 other elephants with records in this database: (detailed list)

1. ♂ Jogi born 2014-08-14
,
2. ♂ Tuluba born 2010-08-06
, (see detailed list).

Origin

Shawu was born captive-born 2011-01-20 at Wuppertal Zoo.

Parentage

Parents of Shawu are: ♂ Tusker (father) and ♀ Punda (mother).

Siblings through the father Tusker:

1. 2005-06-03(F) Bongi
2. 2005-10-09(M) Kibo
3. 2007-07-13(F) Tika
4. 2008-01-13(M) Tamo
5. 2010-08-06(M) Tuluba
6. 2011-01-16(M) Uli
7. 2012 -- † 2012 (F) stillborn
8. 2013-05-13(M) Moyo
9. 2013-08-11?(F) Pina Nessie
10. 2014-08-14(M) Jogi
11. 2016-03-17(F) Tuffi
12. 2017-12-00 -- † 2017-12-00 (unknown) noname
13. 2019-04-20(M) Gus
14. 2020-03-06(F) Tsavo

Siblings through the mother Punda:

1. 2005-06-03(F) Bongi
2. 2013-08-11?(F) Pina Nessie
3. 2016-05-04(F) Madiba

Pedigree

Sources used for this article is among others:

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: La Teste Zoo du Bassin d´Arcachon
• More elephants from: France
• More elephants that was born: 2011-01-20
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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