Twiggy an African savanna elephant at Toledo Zoo

Location

Twiggy is a confiscated Female ♀ African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana), living in Toledo Zoo, in United States.

Twiggy arrived in Toledo Zoo 2010-02-14, relocated from Baron von Uhls Wild Animal Circus (Julius von Uhl), in United States.

In Toledo Zoo, Twiggy lives together with 2 other elephants with records in this database: (detailed list)

1. ♂ Lucas born 2011-06-03
,
2. ♀ Renee (Mbili) born 1979
, (see detailed list).

Origin

Twiggy was born wild 1985, captured 1987 .

In February 2010, the USDA confiscated von Uhl's animals, including tigers, lions and his elephant. The USDA claimed the animals' living conditions weren't following the law. The 25 year old elephant was then transferred to the Toledo Zoo, joining 29 year old Renee and her son Louie.
This was the fourth USDA elephant confiscation, following elephants removed from John Cuneo, Lance Ramos and Willie Davenport.

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Ryan Easley, USA
• "USDA confiscates circus animals," Elephant-News.com, 2010-02-11
• "Toledo Zoo takes in elephant confiscated from Indiana circus," Elephant-News.com, 2010-02-13

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: Toledo Zoo
• More elephants from: United States
• More elephants that was born: 1985
• More elephants that was captured: 1987
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• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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