Port Lympne Zoo in United Kingdom


Port Lympne Zoo
Typezoo
Owner
Founded1973
Address Lympne Nr. Hythe
Zip-code CT21 4PD
Place Kent
Country United Kingdom
Website Website
Directors 1984-2005: Mike Lockyer (director)
Key People
Veterinarians
Elephant department
Head keepers
of elephants
Elephant keepers 2001-2003: Rob Conachie (elephant keeper)
1977-1990: Martin Smith (elephant keeper)
-: Kevin Knibbs (elephant keeper)
-1984: Mark Aitken (elephant keeper)
-2000: Darren Cockrill (elephant keeper)
Record history
History of updates2023-05-27
Latest document update2023-05-27 05:29:21
Description

Port Lympne Zoo, located at Lympne Nr. Hythe, in Kent, United Kingdom , was founded in 1973.

Casualties

2 casualties
  1. 1984: elephant keeper Mark Aitken fatal attack by Bindu. crushed to death † Mark Aitken Died 1984, Port Lympne Zoo.
  2. 2000-02: elephant keeper Darren Cockrill fatal attack by La Petite. † Darren Cockrill Died 2000-02-00, Port Lympne Zoo. The 27-year-old was found dead in the elephant enclosure at noon yesterday. He had suffered multiple injuries, said the spokesman. He was declared dead on arrival at William Harvey Hospital in Ashford.

Comments / pictures

Elephants were now and then transfered between Port Lympne and Howletts.
The parks have been dogged by controversy after five zookeepers were killed in 20 years, three of them mauled to death by tigers. In 1984 elephant keeper Mark Aitken was crushed to death by the Indian bull Bindu elephant in Port Lympne. The most recent victim was Darren Cockrill, 27, who was crushed by elephant La Petite in its enclosure at Port Lympne in February 2000

The bull Bindu has had many offspring including twins with Yasmin (still born), also still born calves with Rani and Pugli and also mated Divida who died after a ceasarion. Bindu is also the father of Puglis third calf Ashoka who was born on the 20th of August 1998. Pugli rejected him and he is being hand-reared by keepers. Formerly we had a bull Assam, born in Hannover, Germany 1971, who produced a calf out of Pugli but she killed it immediatly after birth. Assam died 1994 whilst under sedation.

References for records about Port Lympne Zoo

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2025). Port Lympne Zoo, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=165. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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