Tunga (Tonga) an Asian elephant at Hawthorn Corporation

† Tunga (Tonga) is a dead Male ♂ Asian elephant, (Elephas maximus), who died at Hawthorn Corporation, in United States, disease in 1996-09-19, massive heart failure. Elephant Elephant TB (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) (Mycobacterium tuberculosis)?(see detailed list).

Offspring

Total: 3 babies

1. (M) 1982-10-01 -- † 2012-01-11 Sabu (Look Chai) SSP id: 69
2. (M) 1993-12-07 -- † 1993-12-15 Bernie SSP id: 349
3. (M) 1993-12-15 Nicholas (Nickolaus) SSP id: 351

Origin

Tunga (Tonga) was born wild 1964.

I know for a fact that a minimum of two of the Hawthorn elephants died from TB, Tunga, the bull I spent time with at the Portland Zoo and Joyce.
Wayne Jackson, Canada

Tonga may have killed his trainer Morgan Berry in June, 1979.

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Wayne Jackson, Canada.
  
• http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19790628&id=uXARAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MeIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6586,8818440
• "Table 4: Captive Elephants 1988-1999 and Additions to 1980-1988 Records," Elephant, The Publication of the Elephant Research Foundation, Vol 2 No 4, January 2000. p 65-71

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• More elephants from: Hawthorn Corporation
• More elephants from: United States
• More elephants that was born: 1964
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• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
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