Tara an Asian elephant at Blackpool Zoo
♀ Tara Species: Asian elephant (Elephas maximus ) Sex and age: Female ♀ 23 years old Id number EEP Number: 9809Management: Free contact Origin Born: * 1998-08-06 captive-born Birth place: in Twycross Zoo Parents: ♂ Chang x ♀ Tonzi Offspring Total: 1 babies 1. Born 2012-03-25 (dead † 2012-03-25 ) ♀ stillborn EEP id: 201202 Locations Present / last location: Blackpool Zoo , in United Kingdom Date of Arrival (Presently sometimes errors!) 2018-02-00 Blackpool Zoo from Twycross Zoo Document updated 2009-08-08: Previous locations, Management, Text RE
2010-12-18: Pregnant RE
2012-03-29: stillborn calf
2012-10-26: PC
2018-02-28: transfer
2018-03-02: link to EleWiki submitted by IP address 89.107.209.212
2018-03-02: link to Elefanten-Fotolexikon (Petra Prager)
2018-03-21: corrected location Google map Random literature
Description Location Tara is a Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus ), living in Blackpool Zoo , in United Kingdom .
Tara arrived in Blackpool Zoo 2018-02-00 , relocated from Twycross Zoo , in United Kingdom . In Blackpool Zoo, Tara 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 , ♀ Minbu (Mimbu) born 1985-01-00 , ♀ Noor Jahan born 1995-11-24 , (see detailed list ).Offspring (F) 2012-03-25 -- † 2012-03-25 stillborn EEP id: 201202 Origin Tara was born captive-born 1998-08-06 at Twycross Zoo .
Parentage Parents of Tara are: ♂ Chang (father) and ♀ Tonzi (mother).
Siblings through the father Chang : -- † 2012 () stillborn fetus still in utero 1993-09-09 -- † 1993-09-09 (F) killed 1995-12-19 -- † 1997-05-25 (F) Karha 1997-12-31 -- † 2018-09-07 (F) Sithami 1998-04-25 -- † 1998-04-25 (M) stillborn 1998-08-27(F) Karishma 2000-07-18(M) Po Chin 2000-10-07(M) Assam 2004-03-05 -- † 2004-03-05 (F) stillborn 2004-10-10 -- † 2017-10-30 (M) Tunga 2008-05-04 -- † 2015-11-30 (F) Jade 2009-05-00 -- † 2009-05-00 (F) miscarriage 2010-11-01 -- † 2010-11-01 () stillborn 2014-03-19(M) Tom 2015-05-20 -- † 2015-05-20 (M) Baby Q 2015-06-16 -- † 2018-05-27 (F) Qiyo 2017-12-25(F) Suki 2018-01-13(F) Tun Kai 2018-04-11 -- † 2018-06-26 (M) Tarzen 2020-10-01(F) Mun Pedigree
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Comments / pictures Tara was conceived at the Chester Zoo before her mother was transported back to the Twycross Zoo. The pregnancy lasted 651 days and Tonzi was in labor for 42 hours.
Tara was artificially inseminated with semen collected from the Woburn Zoo's bull Rajah.
2012: She gave birth to a stillborn calf 2012-03-25.
Reference list Koehl, Dan, (2020). Tara, an Asian at Blackpool Zoo in United Kingdom . Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 18 January 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=1613 . (archived at the Wayback machine )Sources used for this article is among others:
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This document was updated: 2020-10-18 06:25:24