Minbu (Mimbu) an Asian elephant at Blackpool Zoo

♀ Minbu (Mimbu)

Identification

EEP nr	8504

Description

Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀ 36 years old
Management:	Free contact
Origin
Born:	* 1985-01-00 wild
Birth place:
Imported:	1990
Freight:	By boat from Rangoon, Burma to Rotterdam
Offspring
Total: 1 babies

1. Born 1998-08-27	♀ Karishma EEP id: 9810
Locations
Present / last location:	Blackpool Zoo, in United Kingdom

Date of Arrival (Presently sometimes errors!)

2018-03-07	Blackpool Zoo from Twycross Zoo Twycross Zoo 1997-10-02 from Chester Zoo Chester Zoo 1996-10-19 from Twycross Zoo Twycross Zoo 1991-01-19 from Soest Zoo Soest Zoo from Yangon Zoo (Rangoon Zoo) Yangon Zoo (Rangoon Zoo) from E.A.G. van den Brink E.A.G. van den Brink from Myanmar Timber Enterprise (MTE)

Document updated	2009-08-08: Managment 2012-10-26: pc 2018-03-08: transfer 2018-03-21: corr location 2018-04-08: prev loc
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Description

Location

Minbu (Mimbu) is a living Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), located at Blackpool Zoo, in United Kingdom.

Minbu (Mimbu) arrived Blackpool Zoo 2018-03-07, relocated from Twycross Zoo, in United Kingdom.

In Blackpool Zoo, Minbu (Mimbu) lives together with 5 other elephants with records in this database: (detailed list)

♂ Emmett (Tundi) born 1991-07-10
♀ Esha born 2014-03-04
♀ Katie (Sonya, Kati, Katsula) born 1969
♀ Noor Jahan born 1995-11-24
♀ Tara born 1998-08-06

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Offspring

(F) 1998-08-27 Karishma EEP id: 9810

Origin

Minbu (Mimbu) was born wild 1985-01-00. and imported 1990, By boat from Rangoon, Burma to Rotterdam

Reference listKoehl, Dan, (2021). Minbu (Mimbu), an Asian elephant at Blackpool Zoo in United Kingdom. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 16 May 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=1611. (archived at the Wayback machine)