Birma
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Magdeburg Zoo in Germany

☨ ♀ Birma
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Identification

EEP nr	7303

Description

Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀ 49 years old
Status:	confiscated
Origin
Born:	* 1969
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†2018-09-05
Death reason:	euthanised: collapsed
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Magdeburg Zoo, in Germany

Date of arrival

1973-01-08	Magdeburg Zoo from Circus Probst

Record history
History of updates	2018-07-14: link to EleWiki submitted 2018-09-05: dead

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

† Birma is a dead confiscated Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 2018-09-05 at Magdeburg Zoo, in Germany, . Official death reason described as collapsed.

Origin

Birma was born 1969.

Comments / pictures

Confiscated 1973 from Circus Probst

1990: Second outbreak (first 1971) of elephant smallpox. Fortunately she went through it and survived.

Reference list

Koehl, Dan, (2023). Birma, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Magdeburg Zoo in Germany. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 3 December 2023 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=1290. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Links

Birma at Elewiki, a wiki collaboration on elefanten.wikia.com (In german) HTTP code: 301 it is valid
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