Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Bowie at Fort Worth Zoo

Location

Bowie is a living Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) , located at Fort Worth Zoo, in United States.

Bowie arrived Fort Worth Zoo 2013-08-05,

In Fort Worth Zoo, Bowie lives together with 7 other elephants with records as alive in this database:

1. ♀ Angel born 1988-12-30
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2. ♀ Belle (Bluebelle) born 2013-07-07
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3. ♀ Bluebonnet born 1998-12-16
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4. ♂ Casey born 1971
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5. ♂ Colonel Tusk (Boy) born 1991-04-04
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6. ♀ Rasha born 1971
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7. ♂ Romeo born 1993-01-10
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See also a more detailed list with the elephants arrival dates etc.


Origin

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Bowie was conceived through artificial insemination and born captive-born 2013-08-05 at Fort Worth Zoo.

Parentage

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Parents of Bowie are: ♂ Samson (father) and ♀ Bluebonnet (mother).

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Siblings through the father Samson:

1. 2013-10-02(F) Jazmine
2. 2018-05-04(M) Thorn

Pedigree

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Bowies ancestral Pedigree:

P	I	II	III
Bowie	Sire (f): Samson Born: 1998-05-04	Sire ff: Calvin (Chanda) Born: 1986-08-11 Dead: 2015-10-22	Sire fff: Bandara
			Dame ffm: Kamala
		Dame fm: Kitty (Mookee) Born: 1965 Dead: 2016	Sire fmf:
			Dame fmm:
	Dame m: Bluebonnet Born: 1998-12-16 Dead: 2016	Sire mf: Groucho Born: 1971 Dead: 2016	Sire mff:
			Dame mfm:
		Dame mm: Rasha Born: 1971 Dead: 2016	Sire mmf:
			Dame mmm:

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Jackson Lee Byrd, USA
  
• Fort Worth Zoo through Ryan Gillis.
• Elefanten-wiki on elefanten.wikia.com http://elefanten.wikia.com/wiki/Bowie (Google Translated version)

Relevant links

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: Fort Worth Zoo
• More elephants from: United States
• More elephants that was born: 2013-08-05
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

External relevant links (Opens in new window)

• Bowie at Elewiki, a wiki collaboration on elefanten.wikia.com (In german) HTTP code: 301 it is valid
• Link to translated version with Google Translate

Search more on the web for Bowie

(The name Bowie is already submitted into the link, just click on the link for relevant results)

• elephant-news.com
• Asianelephant.net
• Billboard
• Buckles Blog
• circushistory.org
• Elephant_Commentator
• Elefanten-Fotolexikon.eu
• elefanten.wikia
• Google Internet search
• Google Books
• ZooChat