Zuzanna
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Kobe Oiji Zoo in Japan

Location

Zuzanna is a living Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) , located at the Kobe Oiji Zoo, in Japan.

Zuzanna arrived in 2014-12-02 to the Kobe Oiji Zoo, relocated from the Ichihara Elephant Kingdom, in Japan.

1. ♂ Mac born 1992-06-13
2. ♀ Midori born 2000

Offspring

1. (F) 2002-01-11 -- † 2002-01-11 stillborn JAZA id: ?
2. (F) 2004-03-02 -- † 2005-04-25 Momo JAZA id: ?
3. (M) 2007-10-21 -- † 2012-04-07 Oji JAZA id: ?
4. (M) 2014-06-12 Yuuki JAZA id: ?

Origin

Zuzanna was born captive-born 1990-04-05 at Riga Zoo.

Parentage

Siblings through the father Radsch:

1. 2005-08-07(M) Myo Set Kaung
2. 2006-03-30(F) Marlar
3. 2006-05-23 -- † 2017-04-00 (M) Unt Bwe
4. 2007-08-08(F) Shwe Zin
5. 2008-02-25(M) Ananda Yingthway
6. 2008-03-07 -- † 2008-03-07 () miscarriage
7. 2008-09-04(M) Yoe Ma
8. 2009-05-23(M) Ein She Min
9. 2010-02-17 -- † 2010-02-17 (M) noname
10. 2010-03-09(M) Einga-Tha
11. 2011-02-06(M) Mong Tine
12. 2011-08-08(M) Shwe Myarr
13. 2012-05-22 -- † 2012-06-11 (M) Thura
14. 2013-07-15(M) Thuya
15. 2014-05-16(M) Radza junior (Radza Jr)
16. 2014-07-20(M) Ravi

Siblings through the mother Zita:

1. 1986-02-18 - † 1986-03-16 (F) noname

Pedigree

1990: The mother died in August and Zuzanna was successfully handreared after four months of age.

1996: Departed for Japan (out Riga Zoo) - August 26, 1996, arrived in Kobe Oji Zoo - September 3, 1996. Transportation via Frankfurt, Riga-Frankfurt (autotransportation, 24-31.08.1996, transportation engaged Roy Smith /Dan-Inject - Interzoo/) http://www.interzoo.de/page20.html Frankfurt-Tokyo (01-02.09.1996, air transport (go with Mr. Gunar Shauer, Riga Zoo Elephant Curator)

2013: On October 9, 2013, Zuze, in pregnant, was transferred to Ichikawa Elephant Kingdom in a hope that Zuze can study the maternal behavior from Pooly.

2014: On June 12, 2014, a healthy male was born, 142kg, but Zuze do not take care the boy as the former cases. Zuze was transferred home to Oji Zoo on December 2, 2014.

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Sergey Chichagov, Riga.
  
• http://www.interzoo.de/page20.html
  
• Elephants and Egotists by Patricia Sumerling
  
• Katsunori Sotani, Tokyo, Japan
  
  
• Elefanten-wiki on elefanten.wikia.com http://elefanten.wikia.com/wiki/Zuze (Google Translated version)

Relevant links

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: Kobe Oiji Zoo
• More elephants from: Japan
• More elephants that was born: 1990-04-05
• 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)

• Zuzanna 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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