Albert
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Frankfurt Zoo in Germany

Biography
dead elephant ☨ ♂ Albert  dead elephant

Identification


Description

Species:Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:Male ♂
Origin
Born:* wild
Birth place: in Asia unspecified location
Death
Dead: 1896
Death location: Frankfurt Zoo
Death reason: killed: shot because of aggressiveness.
Locations - owners
Present / last location:Frankfurt Zoo, in Germany

Date of arrival

1893-00-00Frankfurt Zoo
from Carl Hagenbecks Zoologischer Circus

Carl Hagenbecks Zoologischer Circus
from Carl Hagenbecks Tierpark (Neue Pferdemarkt)

Carl Hagenbecks Tierpark (Neue Pferdemarkt)
from Firma Carl Hagenbeck

Firma Carl Hagenbeck
from Asia unspecified location

Record history
History of updates2023-09-27

Latest document update2021-01-31 12:23:16
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† Albert is a dead Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1896 at Frankfurt Zoo, in Germany, . Official death reason described as shot because of aggressiveness..

Origin

Albert was born wild at Asia unspecified location. by Firma Carl Hagenbeck


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Albert attacked people on the Carl Hagenbeck’s Zoologischer Circus and was given to Zoo Frankfurt when the tour arrived Frankfurt.

Albert was finally declared "untrainable" and was shot by the "experienced Limburger Elephant hunter“ Josef Menges inside the stable, why parts of the stables had to be disambled, in order to get the body out.


Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2024). Albert, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Frankfurt Zoo in Germany. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 20 April 2024 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=8102. (archived at the Wayback machine)


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