Sumatra
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Zlin Lesna-Got Zoo in Czech Republic

† Sumatra is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1959 at Zlin Lesna-Got Zoo, in Czech Republic, . Official death reason described as rheumatism.

Origin

Sumatra was born wild 1914.

1926: in Turin during a spring carneval, scared by petards and ran through the streets of Turin.

1958: She was in a bad shape when she arrived to Zoo Zlin and a part of her left front leg had to be amputated.

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Christian Hamel, France
• "Život v manéži" by Karel Kludský, Václav Cibula, (through Jana Havlová)
• Elephants from CR and SR (Zoo Usti nad Labem)
• Link to the magazine with the cited article, page 28: http://www.zlin.eu/upload.cs/5/5f822aa4_8_zm_zari_09.pdf

Relevant links

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: Zlin Lesna-Got Zoo
• More elephants from: Czech Republic
• More elephants that was born: 1914
• More elephants that died: 1959
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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