Motki an Asian elephant at Sosto Zoo

♀ Motki
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀ 52 years old
Id number	EEP Number: 7105
Management:	Free contact
Origin
Born:	* 1969 wild
Birth place:
Locations
Present / last location:	Sosto Zoo, in Hungary

Date of Arrival (Presently sometimes errors!)

2009-09-12	Sosto Zoo from Terra Natura theme park, Benidorm Terra Natura theme park, Benidorm 2004-08-29 from Gänserndorf Safari Park Gänserndorf Safari Park 2002-11-09 from Port Lympne Zoo Port Lympne Zoo 1977-06-01 from Howletts Wild Animal Park Howletts Wild Animal Park 1971-01-01 from Sonepur Fair

Document updated	2009-09-15: transfer to sosto zoo 2010-04-10: free contact 2010-05-01: prev. location Sonepur 2012-09-02: corr arr date 2018-11-27: link to EleWiki submitted
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Description

Location

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

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

In Sosto Zoo, Motki lives together with 7 other elephants with records in this database: (detailed list)

Motki was born wild 1969.

Comments / pictures

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

Reference listKoehl, Dan, (2020). Motki, an Asian at Sosto Zoo in Hungary. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 19 January 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=1370. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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

Links

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

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

This document was updated: 2020-10-18 06:25:24