Bee (Burma) at Toluca Zoo (Zoologico de Zacango)
Bee. Toluca Zoo 02/2007. Won-Tolla | ||
| † Bee (Burma) | ID Number: | |
|---|---|---|
| Species: | Asian elephant | |
| Sex and age: | Female ♀, unknown Notice: Undefined variable: age in /customers/6/2/a/elephant.se/httpd.www/database2.php on line 783 Notice: Undefined variable: age in /customers/6/2/a/elephant.se/httpd.www/database2.php on line 786 maybe about years old (estimated age) | |
| Dead date: | † 2010-04-28 | |
| Death reason: | unknown: | People killed: | 2 |
| Location: | Toluca Zoo (Zoologico de Zacango) | |
| Arrival | Toluca Zoo (Zoologico de Zacango) 1980-00-00 from Africam Safari (Puebla Zoo) Africam Safari (Puebla Zoo) 1974-00-00 from Mexico unspecified location Mexico unspecified location from Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus 1961-00-00 from ACME Circus Corporation (Bob Snowden) ACME Circus Corporation (Bob Snowden) 1961-00-00 from Tony Gentry | |
| Born: | wild | |
| Document updated | 2009-03-22: Previous locations, Birth, Name, Text, Image RE 2009-03-31: Current location, Management, Text RE 2010-05-19: death 2010-12-19: Mankiller RE 2012-05-28: Previous locations RE | |
| Tony Gentry received Burma in 1953. He would eventually present three elephants. Burma and Gypsy were sold in 1961 to Bob Snowden of Acme Circus Corporation, later heading to Clyde Beatty - Cole Brothers Circus. Rex Williams immediately changed their names to Bee and Gyp. The two elephants would remain together upon their sale to Africam Safari in Mexico in 1974. Bee would later be sold to the Toluca Zoo in 1980. It is said Bee had killed at least 2 people. 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 Sources, among others
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