Motki
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Sosto Zoo in Hungary

Location

Motki is a living Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) , located at the Sosto Zoo, in Hungary.

Motki arrived in 2009-09-12 to the Sosto Zoo, relocated from the Terra Natura theme park, Benidorm, in Spain.

1. ♂ Jack born 1992
2. ♂ Kibo born 2022-08-29
3. ♀ Kimani born 2018-06-16
4. ♀ Kwanza born 2001-08-13
5. ♀ Tanja born 1975
6. ♀ Yasmin (Yasmine) born 1966

Origin

Motki was born wild 1969.

In his book The Best of Friends, John Aspinall writes that all asian elephants, except Assam, were bought at the Sonepur market in India.

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• The Best of Friends, John Aspinall
• Elefanten-wiki on elefanten.wikia.com http://elefanten.wikia.com/wiki/Motki (Google Translated version)

Relevant links

Internal relevant links

• List of all recorded elephants in: European studbook for Asian elephants
• More elephants from: Sosto Zoo
• More elephants from: Hungary
• More elephants that was born: 1969
• 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)

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

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