African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana)
Benjamin at Thoiry Zoo

Location

Benjamin is a living Male ♂ African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) , located at Thoiry Zoo, in France.

Benjamin arrived Thoiry Zoo 2002-10-02, relocated from Howletts Wild Animal Park, in United Kingdom.

In Thoiry Zoo, Benjamin lives as single living elephant at this location

Origin

Benjamin was born wild 1984 at Zimbabwe unspecified location, captured 1985? . and imported 1985? by Firma Ruhe

Contradictory records:

EEG state birth year 1981.

1995-04-02: Ebeni killed the elephantkeeper Dougie Robertson at Monde Sauvage Safari

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Peter Stolk
• Elefanten in Zoo und Circus, EEG: Haufellner, Kurt, Schilfarth, Schweiger
  
  
• African Elephant Studbook, Europe Regional EEP
  by Amelia Terkel, Zoological center Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Israel

Internal relevant links

• List of all recorded elephants in: European studbook for Asian elephants
• List of elephant mankillers
• More elephants from: Thoiry Zoo
• More elephants from: France
• More elephants that was born: 1984
• More elephants that was captured: 1985?
• More elephants that was imported: 1985?
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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