Lampoon
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Givskud Zoo in Denmark

Lampoon was born wild 1961 at Thailand unspecified location, captured 1961 .

Gift from Thailand Tobacco Monopoly. Arrived Denmark with the ship M/S Bogota.

The late Danish king Frederik IX wrote a handwritten letter the 29th of January 1962 to the chairman of the board of the Copenhagen Zoo, Dr. Böje Benzon, with the following content:

Dr Böje Benzon
As You know, I was honored with the gift of three elephant babies in Thailand; when the first arrives i dont know, but I would like to ask You if I may deponate them in Zoologisk Have. The youngest and last one is only seven months old, so I doubt that he comes within the nest two years. The other two, I believe, comes within two months.

With best greetings to Your wife,
Yours sincerely
Frederik



Lampoon in Copenhagen 1967. Photo: © Jens Madsen, Copenhagen

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Erland Axel Wadsten
• Jens Madsen, Copenhagen
• Documentation 2002 - Elephants in European Zoos and Safari Parks published by European Elephant Group: Haufellner, Schilfarth, Schweiger
• Elefanter i Köpenhavns Zoologisk Haave siden 1878, by Henning, Copenhagen, Denmark
  
  

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• List of all recorded elephants in: European studbook for Asian elephants
• More elephants from: Givskud Zoo
• More elephants from: Denmark
• More elephants that was born: 1961
• More elephants that was captured: 1961
• More elephants that died: 1972-12-06
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• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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