Samson
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Portland Zoo (Metro Washington Park Zoo) in United States

Location

Samson is a living Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) , located at the Portland Zoo (Metro Washington Park Zoo), in United States.

Samson arrived in 2018-04-10 to the Portland Zoo (Metro Washington Park Zoo), relocated from the Albuquerque Biological Park, in United States.

1. ♀ Chendra born 1993
2. ♀ Rose-Tu (twin) born 1994-08-31
3. ♂ Sam (Samudra) born 2008-08-23
4. ♀ Sung-Surin (Shine) born 1982-12-26

Offspring

Total: 3 babies

1. (M) 2013-08-05 Bowie SSP id: 758
2. (F) 2013-10-02 Jazmine SSP id: 759
3. (M) 2018-05-04 -- † 2021-12-25 Thorn SSP id: 00

Origin

Samson was born captive-born 1998-05-04 at African Lion Safari (Ontario).

Parentage

Siblings through the father Calvin (Chanda):

1. 1998-07-30 -- † 1999-03-22 (F) Annie
2. 1998-08-21 -- † 2002-08-08 (M) Amos
3. 1998-11-29(M) Albert
4. 1999-10-21(M) George
5. 2001-04-29(M) Johnson
6. 2001-11-25(M) Kandula
7. 2003-02-02(F) Califa
8. 2003-03-20(F) Farina
9. 2005-10-28(M) Tarak
10. 2008-05-06(M) Shanti
11. 2011-03-11 -- † 2011-05-06 (M) Sethi
12. 2011-04-12(F) Rashmi
13. 2014-02-04 -- † 2016-01-23 (F) Sumitra (OST Nr.3)
14. 2017-07-08(M) Chandru

Siblings through the mother Kitty (Mookee):

1. 1993-05-02(M) Nikolai
2. 2001-04-29(M) Johnson
3. 2006-04-23(F) Emily

Pedigree

In November 2003, African Lion Safari sold two five year old male elephants, Albert and Samson, to the Rio Grande Zoo.

Daizy, making history in September 2009 as the first calf born at the Rio Grande Zoo, was the result of Artificial insemination with sperm from three donors. Albert and Samson from the Rio Grande Zoo in addition to Sneezy from the Tulsa Zoo. Following a DNA test from collected blood samples, Albert was determined to be the father.

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Ryan Easley, USA
  
• http://www.koin.com/news/animals/oregon-zoo-welcomes-new-elephant/1115587710
• Elefanten-wiki on elefanten.wikia.com http://elefanten.wikia.com/wiki/Samson_(Albuquerque) (Google Translated version)

Relevant links

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: Portland Zoo (Metro Washington Park Zoo)
• More elephants from: United States
• More elephants that was born: 1998-05-04
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

External relevant links (Opens in new window)

• Samson 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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• Elephant_Commentator
• Elefanten-Fotolexikon.eu
• elefanten.wikia
• Google Internet search
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