Estrella
African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) at
Blair Drummond Safari and Adventure Park in United Kingdom

Estrella was born wild 1964-06-00, captured 1966 .

Contradictory records:

EEG claim arrival in BD on March 8th, while BD state she arrived there in March 20th.

Estrella did not have this house name until her arrival 1990 in Spain.
Identity of previous house names are not known.

Moved on from France as apparently attacked a keeper. Moved on from Spain as had difficulties in the Herd.

According to EEG/Haufellner, she was the largest female african elephant in europe.

2013-07-04: She was euthanized due to arthritis/joint problems that caused her to fall and was unable to get back up.

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Chris Lucas, Blair Drummond Safari Park, United Kingdom
• African Elephant Studbook, Europe Regional EEP
  by Amelia Terkel, Zoological center Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Israel

Recommended Litterature:

Relevant links

Internal relevant links

• List of all recorded elephants in: European studbook for Asian elephants
• More elephants from: Blair Drummond Safari and Adventure Park
• More elephants from: United Kingdom
• More elephants that was born: 1964-06-00
• More elephants that was captured: 1966
• More elephants that died: 2013-07-04
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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