Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Lulu at Buffalo Zoo

† Lulu is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died at Buffalo Zoo, in United States, from euthanised 1992-11-15. Official death reason described as tooth infection. (see detailed list).

Origin

Lulu was born wild 1952.

Contradictory records:

SSP state birth year 1952, but "A Lulu and Her Companion" states she was 3 years old upon arrival in Buffalo in 1953.

In November 1995, Lulu was euthanized via lethal injection after the zoo veterinarian warned she would not survive the operation to remove an absessed tooth. An operation had been performed earlier in April to clean the infection, but it returned several weeks prior to her death.

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Ryan Easley, USA
• "A Lulu and Her Companion," City of Buffalo, 1992
• "Elephant Put To Death Because Of Sore Tooth," OrlandoSentinel.com, 1992-11-17

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• More elephants from: Buffalo Zoo
• More elephants from: United States
• More elephants that was born: 1952
• More elephants that died: 1992-11-15
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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