Daisy
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Belfast Zoo in United Kingdom

Biography

☨ ♀ Daisy

Identification


Description

Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†1935?
Death reason:	unknown:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Belfast Zoo, in United Kingdom

Date of arrival

1934-03-27	Belfast Zoo from Chapmans London Zoo Circus

	Chapmans London Zoo Circus from George B. Chapman

Record history
History of updates	2023-10-27

Latest document update	2020-10-18 06:25:24
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† Daisy is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1935? at Belfast Zoo, in United Kingdom, .

Origin

Daisy was born wild .

Comments / pictures

Records about Daisy from Peter Stolk, Netherlands
Also Daisy, http://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=816, arrived from Chapman's Circus, as an adult, March 27 1934.
Due to return to England in 1935 but refused to board the ship. Died in Belfast 1935 or 1936.

Information from Belfast Zoo website

When Daisy arrived on the Heysham steamer on 27 March 1934 (the day before the zoo officially opened), she walked six miles from the docks to her new home.

Source: http://www.belfastzoo.co.uk/ZooHome/NewsAndEvents/Birthday/HistoricalPhotoGallery.aspx

Before moving to the zoo, Daisy starred on the silver screen in a feature film called Red Wagon, which was released in 1933.

Source: http://www.belfastzoo.co.uk/ZooHome/NewsAndEvents/Birthday

When Sheila the elephant arrived at the zoo in late 1935, the zoo decided to move Daisy to Whipsnade Zoo in London.

After calmly walking back to the docks where she first arrived in Belfast, the elephant began to get agitated, before eventually breaking free to start the long walk back to Bellevue.

The keepers had no option but to follow Daisy, but they had a difficult time keeping pace with her (elephants can run up to 25 miles per hour).

One theory is that Daisy suffered a very rough crossing from Heysham in 1934 and, as the old saying goes, "elephants never forget", so perhaps she didn't want to repeat the experience!

Daisy returned to the zoo, where she lived out her days with Sheila.

She died a few years later, some time between late 1935 and early 1936.

/DaisyTheElephant.aspx and Belfast's Mountain Playground - Thing You Didn't Know or Had Forgotten by Stewart McFetridge.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2024). Daisy, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Belfast Zoo in United Kingdom. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 19 April 2024 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=816. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

Peter Stolk, Netherlands

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