Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Ceyla (Ceyla-Himali) at Zurich Zoo

♀ Ceyla (Ceyla-Himali)

Identification

EEP nr	7602

Description

Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀ 46 years old
Management:	Free contact
Origin
Born:	* 1975-07-01 wild
Birth place:
Imported:	1976
Offspring
Total: 6 babies

1. Born 1984-07-27 (dead † 1995-04-02)	♀ Komali EEP id: 8410

2. Born 1989-02-13	♀ Panang EEP id: 8902

3. Born 1994-11-14	♂ Upali EEP id: 9407

4. Born 1997-09-08 (dead † 1999-11-20)	♂ Xian EEP id: 9701

5. Born 2000-06-10 (dead † 2003-10-15)	♂ Aishu EEP id: 20002

6. Born 2005-05-03	♀ Farha EEP id: 200507
Locations
Present / last location:	Zurich Zoo, in Switzerland

Date of Arrival (Presently sometimes errors!)

1976-03-24	Zurich Zoo from Sri Lanka National Zoological Gardens (Dehiwela Zoo) Sri Lanka National Zoological Gardens (Dehiwela Zoo) 1976-03-01 from Pinnawala elephant orphanage

Document updated	2017-03-09: news link 2017-03-09: link to Elefanten-Fotolexikon (Petra Prager) submitted 2017-03-09: link to ele-wiki submitted
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Description

Location

Ceyla (Ceyla-Himali) is a living Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) , located at Zurich Zoo, in Switzerland.

Ceyla (Ceyla-Himali) arrived Zurich Zoo 1976-03-24, relocated from Sri Lanka National Zoological Gardens (Dehiwela Zoo), in Sri Lanka.

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

Ceyla (Ceyla-Himali) was born wild 1975-07-01. and imported 1976

Comments / pictures

Ceyla-Himali is the breeder in Zoo Zuerich.

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Reference listKoehl, Dan, (2021). Ceyla (Ceyla-Himali), Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Zurich Zoo in Switzerland. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 30 July 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=33. (archived at the Wayback machine)