Tara
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Blackpool Zoo in United Kingdom

♀ Tara
Identification
EEP nr9809
Description
Species:Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:Female ♀ 25 years old
Management:Protected 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 - owners
Present / last location:Blackpool Zoo, in United Kingdom
Date of arrival
2018-02-00Blackpool Zoo
from Twycross Zoo
Record history
History of updates2009-08-08: 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
Latest document update2022-03-18 06:16:32
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Biography

Location

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

Tara arrived in 2018-02-00 to the Blackpool Zoo, relocated from the Twycross Zoo, in United Kingdom.

Tara lives together with 5 other elephants at the Blackpool Zoo:
  1. ♂ Emmett (Tundi) born 1991-07-10
  2. ♀ Esha born 2014-03-04
  3. ♀ Katie born 1969
  4. ♀ Minbu born 1985-01-00
  5. ♀ Noor Jahan born 1995-11-24

detailed list with arrival dates etc.

Offspring

  1. (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:

  1. -- † 2012 () stillborn fetus still in utero
  2. 1993-09-09 -- † 1993-09-09 (F) killed
  3. 1995-12-19 -- † 1997-05-25 (F) Karha
  4. 1997-12-31 -- † 2018-09-07 (F) Sithami
  5. 1998-04-25 -- † 1998-04-25 (M) stillborn
  6. 1998-08-27(F) Karishma
  7. 2000-07-18(M) Po Chin
  8. 2000-10-07(M) Assam
  9. 2004-03-05 -- † 2004-03-05 (F) stillborn
  10. 2004-10-10 -- † 2017-10-30 (M) Tunga
  11. 2008-05-04 -- † 2015-11-30 (F) Jade
  12. 2009-05-00 -- † 2009-05-00 (F) miscarriage
  13. 2010-11-01 -- † 2010-11-01 () stillborn
  14. 2014-03-19(M) Tom
  15. 2015-05-20 -- † 2015-05-20 (M) Baby Q
  16. 2015-06-16 -- † 2018-05-27 (F) Qiyo
  17. 2017-12-25(F) Suki
  18. 2018-01-13(F) Tun Kai
  19. 2018-04-11 -- † 2018-06-26 (M) Tarzen
  20. 2020-10-01(F) Mun

Pedigree

Taras ancestral Pedigree:
P I II III

Tara

Sire (f):
Chang

Born: 1981-11-10

Sire ff:
Chieng Mai

Born: 1959
Sire fff:
Dame ffm:
Dame fm:
Ida

Born: 1970
Sire fmf:
Dame fmm:

Dame m:
Tonzi

Born: 1984-10-03

Sire mf:


Born:
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Dame mfm:
Dame mm:


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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

References

Koehl, Dan, (2021). Tara, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Blackpool Zoo in United Kingdom. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 8 February 2023 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=1613. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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