Karat
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Nikolaev Zoo in Ukraine

Biography
dead elephant ☨ ♂ Karat  dead elephant
Identification
EEP nr5207
Description
Species:Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:Male ♂ 41 years old
Origin
Born:* 1952-08-25 captive-born
Birth place: in Moscow Zoo
Parents: ♂ Shango x ♀ Molly
Death
Dead: †1993-05-17
Death reason: disease: liver disease
Locations - owners
Present / last location:Nikolaev Zoo, in Ukraine
Date of arrival
1977-05-00Nikolaev Zoo
from Kiev Zoo
1971-11-06Kiev Zoo
from Almaty Zoo (Alma-Ata Zoo)
1966-09-03Almaty Zoo (Alma-Ata Zoo)
from Circus Kornilov
1955-07-16Circus Kornilov
from USSR Government Circus
USSR Government Circus
from Moscow Zoo
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† Karat is a dead Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1993-05-17 at Nikolaev Zoo, in Ukraine, . Official death reason described as liver disease.

Origin

Karat was born captive-born 1952-08-25 at Moscow Zoo.

Parentage

Parents of Karat are: ♂ Shango (father) and ♀ Molly (mother).

Siblings through the father Shango:

  1. 1941? -- † 1941? () stillborn
  2. 1948-08-03 -- † 1970-05-04 (M) Moskwitsch

Siblings through the mother Molly:

  1. 1948-08-03 - † 1970-05-04 (M) Moskwitsch

Pedigree

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Comments / pictures

karat came in 1955 to an unknown circus in Russia, from where he was sold to Alma-Ata in 1966.

Karat was by his death one of the oldest captive born elephants worldvide.


Contradictory records:

EEG state arrival in Kiev 1972, EEP state 1971.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2024). Karat, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Nikolaev Zoo in Ukraine. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 7 September 2024 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=1923. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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Categories1993 deaths | 1952 births | With Pedigree | Elephants from Nikolaev Zoo | Ukraine | Asian elephants


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