Indi an Asian elephant at Zurich Zoo

♀ Indi
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀ 35 years old
Id number	EEP Number: 8602
Management:	Free contact
Origin
Born:	* 1986-02-28 unknown
Birth place:
Imported:	1988?
Freight:	By boat from Rangoon, Burma to Rotterdam
Offspring
Total: 4 babies

1. Born 2002-05-14	♀ Chandra EEP id: 200204

2. Born 2005-07-24	♂ Fahim EEP id: 200511

3. Born 2014-06-17	♀ Omysha EEP id: 201406

4. Born 2020-02-05	♂ Umesh EEP id: 202002
Locations
Present / last location:	Zurich Zoo, in Switzerland

Date of Arrival (Presently sometimes errors!)

1999-10-08	Zurich Zoo from Circus Knie Circus Knie 1988-04-00 from Yangon Zoo (Rangoon Zoo) Yangon Zoo (Rangoon Zoo) 1988-00-00 from E.A.G. van den Brink E.A.G. van den Brink from Myanmar Timber Enterprise (MTE)

Document updated	2009-03-07: name spelling correction 2014-03-22: pregnant 2014-06-24: not pregnant 2017-03-08: link to Elefanten-Fotolexikon (Petra Prager) submitted 2017-03-08: link to ele-wiki submitted
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Description

Location

Indi is a Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), living in Zurich Zoo, in Switzerland.

Indi arrived in Zurich Zoo 1999-10-08, relocated from Circus Knie, in Switzerland.

In Zurich Zoo, Indi lives together with 7 other elephants with records in this database: (detailed list)

♀ Ceyla (Ceyla-Himali) born 1975-07-01
♀ Chandra born 2002-05-14
♀ Farha born 2005-05-03
♀ Omysha born 2014-06-17
♀ Ruwani born 2017-02-25
♂ Thai born 2004-11-26
♂ Umesh born 2020-02-05

detailed list

Offspring

(F) 2002-05-14 Chandra EEP id: 200204
(M) 2005-07-24 Fahim EEP id: 200511
(F) 2014-06-17 Omysha EEP id: 201406
(M) 2020-02-05 Umesh EEP id: 202002

Origin

Indi was born unknown 1986-02-28. and imported 1988?, By boat from Rangoon, Burma to Rotterdam

Reference listKoehl, Dan, (2020). Indi, an Asian at Zurich Zoo in Switzerland. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 26 February 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=30. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

http://www.upali.ch (Georges Frei, Switzerland)
Elefanten-wiki on elefanten.wikia.com http://elefanten.wikia.com/wiki/Indi (Google Translated version)

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Internal relevant links

List of all recorded elephants in: European studbook for Asian elephants
More elephants from: Zurich Zoo
More elephants from: Switzerland
More elephants that was born: 1986-02-28
More elephants that was imported: 1988?
All breeding cows
All breeding bulls
The elephant database startpage. Statistics
List of all captive born elephants in the database

External relevant links (Opens in new window)

Indi at Elewiki, a wiki collaboration on elefanten.wikia.com (In german) HTTP code: 301 it is valid

Link to translated version with Google Translate

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This document was updated: 2020-10-18 14:48:46