Rocco
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Lok Kawi Wildlife Park (Sabah Zoo) in Malaysia

1. (M) 2008-02-01 Sumandak
2. (F) 2008-05-00 Amoi

Rocco was born wild 1984-00-00, captured 1991 .

Sabah Wildlife Department (SWD) senior chief veterinarian, Dr Sen
Nathan told the Borneo Post yesterday that the elephant, estimated to
be around 27 years old, died less than 24 hours after displaying signs
of sudden weakness which led to recumbency.
“We treated him with emergency Intravenous and subcutaneous fluid
therapy,” he said.
However, the elephant succumbed and died the next day at about 3.30am.
He explained that the cause of death was due to prolonged recumbency
as a sequel to sudden weakness due to the elephant’s immense body
weight.
He said that staying on its side for prolonged periods can put
pressure on their internal organs and cause respiratory and circulatory
failure throughout the body.
“We have already sent samples to the Veterinary Service Department’s
Animal Disease Research Center. We are awaiting the results from
bacteriological investigations,” he said. For the past three years, Rocco has been off exhibit as developing Musth and has to be kept off exhibit , he said.
“One good thing from his life in captivity is having left behind three
beautiful baby elephants – two female elephants, Sumandak and Amoi
and a male, Ganesh,” he said.

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Albert Roolfs, Münster, Germany
• Elefanten-wiki on elefanten.wikia.com http://elefanten.wikia.com/wiki/Rocco (Google Translated version)

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Relevant links

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: Lok Kawi Wildlife Park (Sabah Zoo)
• More elephants from: Malaysia
• More elephants that was born: 1984-00-00
• More elephants that was captured: 1991
• More elephants that died: 2011-02-21
• 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)

• Rocco 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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