Tara an Asian elephant at Blackpool Zoo

♀ Tara
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀ 23 years old
Id number	EEP Number: 9809
Management:	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
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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

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

**Taras pedigree:**
P	I	II	III
Tara	Sire: Chang	Sire: Chieng Mai	Sire:
		Sire: Chieng Mai	Dame:
		Dame: Ida	Sire:
		Dame: Ida	Dame:
	Dame: Tonzi	Sire:	Sire:
		Sire:	Dame:
		Dame:	Sire:
		Dame:	Dame:

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 listKoehl, 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:

Alan Bates, Curator, Twycross Zoo
Ryan Easley, USA
John Gibson
Elefanten-wiki on elefanten.wikia.com http://elefanten.wikia.com/wiki/Tara (Google Translated version)

Links

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Tara at Elewiki, a wiki collaboration on elefanten.wikia.com (In german) HTTP code: 301 it is valid

Link to translated version with Google Translate

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Categories1998 births | Breeding cows | Elephants from Blackpool Zoo | United Kingdom | Asian elephants

This document was updated: 2020-10-18 06:25:24