Pooly (Pulley, Puly, Patho)
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Bellini Zoo in Italy

Biography

☨ ♀ Pooly (Pulley, Puly, Patho)

Identification


Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀, unknown age
Origin
Born:	* unknown
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†
Death reason:	:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Bellini Zoo, in Italy

Date of arrival

1957-00-00	Bellini Zoo from Circus Darix Togni

1957-00-00	Circus Darix Togni from Bertram Mills Circus

1934-12-18	Bertram Mills Circus from Carl Hagenbecks Tierpark (Stellingen)

	Carl Hagenbecks Tierpark (Stellingen) from Firma Carl Hagenbeck

Record history
History of updates	2012-10-04: prev loc, text

Latest document update	2020-10-18 06:25:24

† Pooly (Pulley, Puly, Patho) is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died at Bellini Zoo, in Italy, .

Origin

Pooly (Pulley, Puly, Patho) was born unknown .

Comments / pictures

Records about Pooly (Pulley, Puly, Patho) from Raffael de Ritis, Pescara, Italy
Originally from Burma.
1934: Arrived from Hagenbeck, Germany on December 18 1934
1934-1951: Trained by John Gindl, upon suggestion of Hagenbeck to Mills.
1951: Gosta Kruse took over the training in 1951.
1957: Sold to Italy in 1957.
(Source: Bertram Mills, by David Jamieson, 1998.)

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Pooly (Pulley, Puly, Patho), Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Bellini Zoo in Italy. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 30 April 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=12868. (archived at the Wayback machine)