Omar at Berlin Zoo

† Omar

ID Number:	EEP Number: 761 -
Species:	Asian elephant
Sex and age:	Male, unknown years
Status:	foot problems
Dead date:	† 1903
Death reason:	euthanised: hanged because of foot abcess
Location:	Berlin Zoo
Arrived	Berlin Zoo 1881-04-17 from London Zoo London Zoo 1876-05-17 from unknown unknown 1876-01-00 from
Born:	wild India

Document updated	2012-05-29: eep records, nr
Gift from Edward VII of England. Contradictory records: EEP stat arrival in Berlin 1882-04-06 Records about Omar from EEPEuropean Studbook for Asian elephants state following records for the asian elephant Omar: 761 M ???? WILD WILD INDIA ???? NONE Birth OMAR PUBLIC ~ Jan 1876 NONE Transfer LONDON RP 17 May 1876 938 Loan to BERLINZOO 6 Apr 1882 NONE ltf Transfer Source: EEP studbook for Asian elephants online Sources, among others Elefanten in Berlin by Bernhard Blaszkiewitz, Berlin Zoo Amazon.at London Zoo from old photographs, by John C. Edwards 1996, pp. 83 Asian Elephant Studbook, Europe Regional EEP, 2005, 2007 by Rob Belterman, Ton Dorresteyn, Martin van Wees Asian Elephant Studbook, Europe Regional EEP, 2014 by Martin van Wees and Marc Damen (PDF document) Internal relevant links List of all recorded elephants in: European studbook for Asian elephants More elephants from: Berlin Zoo More elephants from: Germany More elephants that died: 1903 All breeding cows All breeding bulls The elephant database startpage. Statistics List of all captive born elephants in the database Search more on the web for Omar (The name Omar is already submitted into the link, just click on the link for relevant results) elephant-news.com elefanten-fotolexikon.eu elefanten.wikia Google Books elephanttag.org and Asian Elephant Studbook 2003-2005, AZA North America (PDF) Asianelephant.net Buckles Blog ShowMe Elephants circushistory.org Billboard Elephant_Commentator ZooChat Share the page about Omar