Ramos
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Africam Safari (Puebla Zoo) in Mexico

Biography

☨ ♂ Ramos
Ramos. Toluca Zoo 02/2007. Won-Tolla

Identification

SSP nr	652

Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Male ♂ 50 years old
Origin
Born:	* 1974 wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†2024-05-13
Death reason:	unknown:
Offspring
Total: 1 babies

1. Born 1991-09-16	♀ Bireki
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Africam Safari (Puebla Zoo), in Mexico

Date of arrival

2007-10-10	Africam Safari (Puebla Zoo) from Toluca Zoo

	Toluca Zoo from Circo Francisco Atayde Garcia

Record history
History of updates	2009-03-22: Previous locations, Birth, Name, Text RE 2009-03-29: Previous locations, Birth, Text RE 2009-03-31: Current location, Text RE 2010-12-05: SSP RE 2012-06-07: Link RE 2018-03-16: picture of Ramos

Latest document update	2026-01-03 12:32:43
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† Ramos is a dead Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 2024-05-13 at Africam Safari (Puebla Zoo), in Mexico, .

Offspring

Total: 1 babies

(F) 1991-09-16 Bireki

Origin

Ramos was born wild 1974.

Comments / pictures

Ramos was imported from Thailand with other elephants that went to Circo Franco Berosini. He sired his only calf while with the circus. He was later sold to the zoo when he was no longer manageable (he did not kill anyone, but was only dangerous.) The Toluca Zoo had three males and a female, in which all the males are kept separate from one another. In 2007, Ramos was transferred on a minimum four year breeding loan to Africam Safari, where breeding would be attempted with two younger females as part of the second "Programa de Intercambio Reproductivo de Elefante Asiático."

There were two enclosures for Asian elephants. In one was a pair, Ted, a tusked bull about 50 years old, and Bee, a female of about 60; in the other was a lone Tuskless bull, Ramos, about 50 years old. All three were donations from a Mexican circus, and had narrowly escaped being destroyed because they killed their trainer and another person. (I am not sure that the ages given above are correct, but that is what I was told.)
International Zoo News Vol. 47/1 (No. 298) January/February 2000

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2026). Ramos, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Africam Safari (Puebla Zoo) in Mexico. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 19 February 2026 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=1779. (archived at the Wayback machine)