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

Tina was born wild 1965 at Asia unspecified location, captured 1966 .

1966: Tina arrived at Belfast Zoo in 1966 from Tyseley Pet Store in Birmingham, with a shipping cost of £20.

In April 2009, 48 year old Jenny and 36 year old Dunja were 'retired' to the Belfast Zoo from their home in Hannover. Both were previous circus elephants (Dunja was confiscated by German officials from Circus Montecarlo) and will be joining 32 year old Yhetoo and 44 year old Tina. Tina has has resided in Belfast since 1966, while Yhetoo arrived in January 2009 from the Krefeld Zoo in Germany. In 2009, the zoo in Northern Ireland changed their management program to Protected Contact and care for non-breeding females at the recommendation of Europe's Asian Elephant breeding program.

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Peter Stolk, Netherlands
  
• Ryan Easley, USA
• Former Circus Elephants Due at Belfast Zoo, 2009-04-02
  
• https://www.independent.ie/life/tina-mischievous-elephant-of-irish-zoo-dies-at-age-54-36293719.html

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• List of all recorded elephants in: European studbook for Asian elephants
• More elephants from: Belfast Zoo
• More elephants from: United Kingdom
• More elephants that was born: 1965
• More elephants that was captured: 1966
• More elephants that died: 2017-11-05
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• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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