Calgary Zoo in Canada

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Calgary Zoo
"Taking the girls out for a walk on the Zoo
"Taking the girls out for a walk on the Zoo's west lawn(Kamala, Swarna and little Maharani) summer of 1990. The wee one in the middle is Malti's mom."Keepers Brent Van Hooft & Dave Percival. Photo: © Brent Van Hooft
Typezoo
Last elephant left2014
Address 1300 Zoo Road NE
Zip-code T2E 7V6
Place Calgary
StateAlberta
Country Canada
Website Website
Related persons
Owner
Zoological department
Elephant department
Head keepers
of elephants
-: Brent Van Hooft
Elephant keepers
1980-1988: John Lehnhardt
-1973: Toby Styles
: Trevor Engelage
Record history
History of updates2021-09-29xx
Latest document update2021-09-29 00:38:02
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Description

Calgary Zoo, located at 1300 Zoo Road NE, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada . The last elephant left in 2014.

Casualties

2 casualties
  1. 1980: director John Lehnhardt attacked by Spike (Ganesha). Lehnhardt’s job was to separate a 3,000-pound male elephant from two females at night. “This young male decided he wasn’t going, so he tried to kill me. He knocked me down and tried to squish me into the floor with his head,” he said.” John Lehnhardt Survived. Lehnhardt grabbed the bull’s ear and quickly moved to the elephant’s side. “If he’d had Tusks, he would have gored me to death,” he said.
  2. 2008-05-18: elephant keeper Brent Van Hooft attacked by Swarna. Around 1:30 p.m., a crowd of people in the Elephant Crossing facility looked on in disbelief as one of the animals; a 33-year old elephant named Swarna, became agitated, and knocked the zoo keeper down. On the ground and with the potentially agitated Swarna standing over him, Van Hooft had the presence of mind to pull himself into a corner where the elephant couldn't reach. Brent Van Hooft Survived. "Apparently he had his back turned and she pushed him or bumped him, and he fell into the wall and struck his head," said Grahame Newton, the zoo's director of corporate services. Senior elephant keeper Brent Van Hooft, 48, was taken to hospital. The force of being pushed into the concrete wall left Van Hooft with minor chest injuries, cuts and bruises to his face and possibly a broken nose.

References for records about Calgary Zoo

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2025). Calgary Zoo, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=181. (archived at the Wayback machine)


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