Raya
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Circul Americano Vargas in Romania

Biography

☨ ♀ Raya

Identification


Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†2021
Death reason:	unknown:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Circul Americano Vargas, in Romania

Date of arrival

2016-09-18	Circul Americano Vargas from Circo Americano (Faggioni)

Record history
History of updates	2010-03-19: new record 2018-06-14: relocated Romania 2021: dead

Latest document update	2022-03-16 15:47:59

† Raya is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 2021 at Circul Americano Vargas, in Romania, .

Origin

Raya was born wild .

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Raya, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Circul Americano Vargas in Romania. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 14 July 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=3041. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Survey 2008 - Elephants in European circuses published by European Elephant Group: Tobias Dornbusch, Jürgen Schilfarth
https://circusarchiv.blogspot.com/2016/09/elefanten-news.html?spref=fb
Jean Arnaud

Litterature about Circul Americano Vargas

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