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Elephant locations in Finland
9 locations has kept elephants in Finland
There is presently 0 (0,0) living elephants in locations in Finland in this database
Finland
Region:
Finland is in this database included in europe
Location holdings: 9 locations has kept 11 elephants in Finland (Database tables with collection of elephants further down on the page )
Elephants in locations 0 (0,0) living 11 (0,2) dead
Prehistoric time
Datings indicate that there were large ice-free areas in Fennoscandia prior to the last glacial maximum c. 18,000 yBP. A number of Woolly Mammoths has been excavated from this time. The datings also indicate a very fast growth of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet to its maximum position.
Recent time
Elephants on Circus in Finland:
1976 Alois Köllner, elephant Simba
1977 Lothar Weissheit
1978 Bernhard Spindler, 4 elephants
1979 Bernhard Renz, 3 small Asian elephants
1980 Joseph Gärtner, 1 African + 4 Asian elephants
1981 Joseph Gärtner, 1 African + 4 Asian elephants
1982 No elephant numbers.
1983 Circus Finlandia, elephant Wani and Anna Jernström
1984 Joszef Richter
1985 Amadeo Folco / SF Senior
1985 Bernhard Spindler / SF Junior, 2 small African elephants
1986 Amadeo Folco / SF Senior
1986 Amadeo Folco / SF Junior, 3 little elephants, director Micky
Elephants on circus were prohobited 1986 in Finland, and the last elephant in a Zoo in Finland, Vanni, was sold from Circus Finlandia to the Zoo Zoolandia in Lieto, and left Finland in 2005, to Nikolaev Zoo, where she died after nine months..
Recommended Citation Koehl, Dan, Facts about elephants in Finland . Elephant Encyclopedia, (2025) available online retrieved 2025-02-17 at https://www.elephant.se/country.php?name=Finland . (archived at the Wayback machine )Sources, among others
Internal relevant links
Name Elephant collection Place
Circus Finlandia (circus) Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0)
0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths Mustio
Circus Sariola (circus) Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0)
0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths
Finland unspecified forest (excavation site) Kept totally 9 elephants, 0 present (0,0)
9 births 0 relocated 9 deaths
Finnish Museum of Natural History (museum) Kept totally 0 elephants, 0 present (0,0)
0 births 0 relocated 0 deaths Helsinki(map)
Helsinki Zoo Quarantine Island (zoo) Kept totally 3 elephants, 0 present (0,0)
0 births 2 relocated 1 deaths Helsinki(map)
Port of Helsinki (seaport) Kept totally 2 elephants, 0 present (0,0)
0 births 2 relocated 0 deaths Helsinki(map)
Suomen Tivoli (circus) Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0)
0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths
Suomen Tivoli (circus) Kept totally 0 elephants, 0 present (0,0)
0 births 0 relocated 0 deaths
Zoolandia (zoo) Kept totally 2 elephants, 0 present (0,0)
0 births 1 relocated 1 deaths Lieto(map)