Setia an Asian elephant at Taiping Zoo and Night Safari Malaysia

Location

Setia is a living Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), located at Taiping Zoo and Night Safari Malaysia, in Malaysia.

Setia arrived Taiping Zoo and Night Safari Malaysia 1991-09-11,

In Taiping Zoo and Night Safari Malaysia, Setia lives together with 7 other elephants with records in this database: (detailed list)

1. ♀ Bera born 1984-05-01
,
2. ♀ Jalong born 1988
,
3. ♀ Jaya born 1991-00-00
,
4. ♀ Mas born 2011-10-30
,
5. ♀ Matang born 2003-12-07
,
6. ♀ Selama born 2005-12-17
,
7. ♀ Tepeng born 2007-06-06
, (see detailed list).

Offspring

Total: 5 babies

1. (F) 2002-08-10 -- † 2004-04-07 Larut
2. (F) 2003-12-07 Matang
3. (F) 2005-12-17 Selama
4. (F) 2007-06-06 Tepeng
5. (F) 2011-10-30 Mas

Origin

Setia was born wild 1989-00-00, captured 1991 .

2007-02-27: The elephant bull Setia attacked elephantkeeper Mohd Hashim Ishak



Setia is free contact/partial protected contact, when not in musth, during musth in protected contact.

He is in tethered on longchain when in musth, and given fewer calories and frequent cold showers.

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Mazwin Marjan, Asst. Curator, Zoo Taiping and Night Safari
  
  

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: Taiping Zoo and Night Safari Malaysia
• More elephants from: Malaysia
• More elephants that was born: 1989-00-00
• More elephants that was captured: 1991
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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