Sahib Fridolin an Asian elephant at Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park

☨ ♂ Sahib Fridolin

Identification

EEP nr	6304

Description

Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Male ♂ 31 years old
Body height:	3.15 meter, 10.3 feet
Origin
Born:	* 1963-02-15 captive-born
Birth place:	in Knies Kinderzoo
Birth weight	139.00 kgs, 305.80 lbs

Parents:	♂ Siam x ♀ Ceylon
Death
Dead date:	† 1994-12-23
Death reason:	killed: shot with rifle
Locations
Present / last location:	Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park, in United Kingdom

Date of Arrival (Presently sometimes errors!)

1991-03-02	Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park from Belfast Zoo (Bellevue Gardens) Belfast Zoo (Bellevue Gardens) 1988-07-03 from Leipzig Zoo Leipzig Zoo 1984-11-22 from Circus Knie Circus Knie from Circus Knie Circus Knie from Knies Kinderzoo

Document updated	2009-11-11: birth weight 2012-02-29: height
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Description

† Sahib Fridolin is a dead Male ♂ Asian elephant, (Elephas maximus), who died at Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park, in United Kingdom, of killed in 1994-12-23. Official death reason described as shot with rifle. (see detailed list).

Origin

Sahib Fridolin was born captive-born 1963-02-15 at Knies Kinderzoo.

Parentage

Parents of Sahib Fridolin are: ♂ Siam (father) and ♀ Ceylon (mother).

Siblings through the father Siam:

1965-08-04 -- † 1984-06-21 (F) Madura
1972-06-17 -- † 1972-06-17 () stillborn
1972-08-13 -- † 1972-08-13 (F) stillborn
1976-03-13 -- † 1976-08 (F) August
1978-06-21 -- † 2018/2019? (M) Kim
1982-06-12 -- † 2000-04-16 (F) Kuala
1987-03-28 -- † 1987-04-21 (F) Lola
1989-02-28 -- † 1997-09-25 (M) John (Ben)
1990-03-31 -- † 2000-06-19 (M) Poona (Salem)
1992-03-27 -- † 2009-10-29 (M) Sammy
1993-10-01(F) Nina
1996-03-17 -- † 1996-03-17 (F) stillborn (twin)
1996-07-01 -- † 1996-07-01 (M) stillborn (twin)
1998-05-04(M) Thisiam

Pedigree

**Sahib Fridolins pedigree:**
P	I	II	III
Sahib Fridolin	Sire: Siam	Sire:	Sire:
		Sire:	Dame:
		Dame:	Sire:
		Dame:	Dame:
	Dame: Ceylon	Sire:	Sire:
		Sire:	Dame:
		Dame:	Sire:
		Dame:	Dame:

Comments / pictures

Rejected from his mother, Sahib was handreared by elephant trainer Josef Haak and his wife at Circus Knie.

Contradictory records:
EEG state arrival to Leipzig Zoo 21st of November.

Sahib was spending his last years in a concrete floor enclosure abt 200 sq. meters large, just close to a Carousel.

Reference listKoehl, Dan, (2021). Sahib Fridolin, an Asian elephant at Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park in United Kingdom. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 17 June 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=964. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

height: Henry Merker, Tiergarten-Forum
Elefanten in Zoo und Circus, EEG: Haufellner, Kurt, Schilfarth, Schweiger
Page 81, Jumbo auf dem Drahtseil - Elefanten dressuren von gestern und heute by Gerhard Zapf

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