Ashok
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Smithsonian National Zoological Park Washington in United States

Biography

☨ ♂ Ashok
Museum locations
Present / last location:	Washington National Museum of Natural History, in United States

Date of arrival

1959-10-00	Washington National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, United States

Identification

Museum accession number	NMNH USNM 313713
SSP nr	486

Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Male ♂ 12 years old
Characteristics:	Skull
Origin
Born:	* 1947 wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†1959-10-01
Death reason:	euthanised:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Smithsonian National Zoological Park Washington, in United States

Date of arrival

1950-04-16	Smithsonian National Zoological Park Washington from Mysore Zoo

Record history
History of updates	2025-03-18

Latest document update	2021-07-28 05:37:45
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† Ashok is a dead Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1959-10-01 at Smithsonian National Zoological Park Washington, in United States, .

Museum locationThe Museum specimen remains of this animal is within the collection at Washington National Museum of Natural History, in Washington, DC, United States, since 1959-10-00.

Origin

Ashok was born wild 1947.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Ashok, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Smithsonian National Zoological Park Washington in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 14 May 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=2571. (archived at the Wayback machine)