Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Dahlip at Zoo Miami (Miami Metro Zoo)

Location

Dahlip is a living Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) , located at Zoo Miami (Miami Metro Zoo), in United States.

Dahlip arrived Zoo Miami (Miami Metro Zoo) 1995-06-02, relocated from Two Tails Ranch (Patricia Zerbini), in United States.

In Zoo Miami (Miami Metro Zoo), Dahlip lives together with 4 other elephants with records as alive in this database:

1. ♀ Maybel born 1976
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2. ♀ Nelly (Nellie) born 1969
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3. ♂ Ongard born 2010-09-10
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4. ♀ Peggy born 1976
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See also a more detailed list with the elephants arrival dates etc.

Offspring

Total: 4 babies

1. (F) 1977-04-02 -- † 1977-04-19 Rocky SSP id: 140
2. (M) 1981-07-02 Spike (Ganesha) SSP id: 141
3. (F) 1985-10-28 -- † 1985-10-30 Pearl SSP id: 142
4. (M) 1996-05-22 -- † 1996-05-22 unborn SSP id: 387

Origin

Dahlip was born claimed captive-born 1966? at Kerala unspecified location. and imported 1967, Aircraft from Bombay, via Frankfurt to USA.

Claimed in SSP studbook to be captive born 1966-07-10 in Trivandrum Zoo, Kerala.

This can however not be confirmed from any valid source. Probably wild born and caught in a forest in Kerala, India.

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Ryan Easley, USA

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: Zoo Miami (Miami Metro Zoo)
• More elephants from: United States
• More elephants that was born: 1966
• More elephants that was imported: 1967
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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