Baby
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Alex and Christian Gärtner in Croatia

♀ Baby
Joy Gï¿½rtner, Baby, Willy Gï¿½rtner, Andreas Quaiser, at Circus Costanzo in Romenia in 2010. Photo Â© Quaiser

Identification


Description

Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀ 42 years old
Management:	Free contact
Origin
Born:	* 1981-07-00 captive-born
Birth place:	in Circus Kendler

Parents:	♂ Bosco x ♀ Benga
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Alex and Christian Gärtner, in Croatia

Date of arrival

2013-11-00	Alex and Christian Gärtner from Andreas Quaiser

	Andreas Quaiser from Circus Kendler

Record history
History of updates	2010-09-22:ï¿½picture 2017-01-08: transfer

Latest document update	2020-10-18 06:25:24
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Biography

Location

Baby is a living Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) , located at the Alex and Christian Gärtner, in Croatia.

Baby arrived in 2013-11-00 to the Alex and Christian Gärtner, relocated from the Andreas Quaiser, in Germany.

Baby lives together with 1 other elephants at the Alex and Christian Gärtner:

♀ Mara born 1973

detailed list with arrival dates etc.

Origin

Baby was born captive-born 1981-07-00 at Circus Kendler.

Parentage

Parents of Baby are: ♂ Bosco (father) and ♀ Benga (mother).

Siblings through the mother Benga:

1996-01-09 - † 1996-01-09 (M) stillborn

Pedigree

**Babys ancestral Pedigree:**
P	I	II	III
Baby	Sire (f): Bosco Born:	Sire ff: Born:	Sire fff:
		Sire ff: Born:	Dame ffm:
		Dame fm: Born:	Sire fmf:
		Dame fm: Born:	Dame fmm:
	Dame m: Benga Born: 1966	Sire mf: Born:	Sire mff:
		Sire mf: Born:	Dame mfm:
		Dame mm: Born:	Sire mmf:
		Dame mm: Born:	Dame mmm:

Comments / pictures

Born during tour with Kron de Alemania i Spain.

This is one of the few only documented elephants which is born on a circus in Europe, and the only one surviving upto Adult age.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2023). Baby, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Alex and Christian Gärtner in Croatia. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 1 October 2023 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=1420. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

Survey 2008 - Elephants in European circuses published by European Elephant Group: Tobias Dornbusch, Jürgen Schilfarth

Elephants and Egotists by Patricia Sumerling

Ger Siet, Netherlands

Links

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Internal relevant links

More elephants from: Alex and Christian Gärtner
More elephants from: Croatia
More elephants that was born: 1981-07-00
All breeding cows
All breeding bulls
The elephant database startpage. Statistics
List of all captive born elephants in the database

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Categories1981 births | With Pedigree | Elephants from Alex and Christian Gärtner | Croatia | Asian elephants

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