Petal an African savanna elephant at Philadelphia Zoo

☨ Petal

ID nr:	SSP Number: 20 -
Species:	African savanna elephant
Sex and age:	Female ♀ 53 years old
Dead date:	† 2008-06-09
Death reason:	age: acute heart and lung failure after she fell on her side while sleeping
Location:	Philadelphia Zoo
Arrival	Philadelphia Zoo 1957-05-13 from Firma Ruhe
Born:	* 1955 wild Tanzania
Capture:	1957 ,
Document updated	2020-10-01
Reference list Koehl, D., (2020). Petal, an African savanna at Philadelphia Zoo in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 27 October 2020 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=1478. (archived at the Wayback machine) Sources used for this article is among others: Philadelphia Zoo elephant Petal dies Internal relevant links More elephants from: Philadelphia Zoo More elephants from: United States More elephants that was born: 1955 More elephants that was captured: 1957 More elephants that died: 2008-06-09 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) Literature Search more on the web for Petal (The name Petal is already submitted into the link, just click on the link for relevant results) elephant-news.com elefanten-fotolexikon.eu elefanten.wikia Google Internet search Google Books elephanttag.org and Asian Elephant Studbook 2003-2005, AZA North America (PDF) Asianelephant.net Buckles Blog circushistory.org Billboard Elephant_Commentator ZooChat