Tanja an Asian elephant at Sosto Zoo

♀ Tanja

Alternative name:	Tanya

Identification

EEP nr	8204

Description

Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀ 46 years old
Management:	Free contact
Origin
Born:	* 1975 unknown
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 1992-07-23 from Boras Zoo Boras Zoo 1982-03-01 from Eskilstuna Zoo Eskilstuna Zoo from Trivandrum Zoo Trivandrum Zoo from Zoo-Forss (Ingemar Forss)

Document updated	2009-09-14: transfer to sosto zoo 2010-04-10: free contact 2011-10-08: picture from time in Boras 2012-09-02: corr arr date 2018-05-03: prev location Trivandrum Zoo
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Description

Location

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

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

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

♀ Buba (Bupa) born 1982
♂ Jack born 1992
♀ Kimani born 2018-06-16
♂ Kito (Nyiregyhaza) born 2015-06-19
♀ Kwanza born 2001-08-13
♀ Motki born 1969
♀ Yasmin (Yasmine) born 1966

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Origin

Tanja was born unknown 1975.

Comments / pictures

According to EEG born 1972?

Attacked keepers Mikael Eriksson and Tony Svensson in Boras Zoo, why she was transfered to off-hand and exported to Port Lympne. Very hairy in younger ages.

Official origin in EEP records is Thailand, But according to Jonas Wahlström, Skansen-Akvariet, Stockholm, Sweden, she was shipped from the port in Trivandrum, with origin from south India. (Jonas and animal-dealer Ingemar Forss went with her on the ship from India)

Tanja had during her first 25 years extremely amounts of hair, see photo.

Tanja as teenager in Borås Zoo

Reference listKoehl, Dan, (2021). Tanja, an Asian elephant at Sosto Zoo in Hungary. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 9 May 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=1376. (archived at the Wayback machine)