Ceyla (Ceyla-Himali) an Asian elephant at Zurich Zoo

Location

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

Ceyla (Ceyla-Himali) arrived in 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)

1. ♀ Chandra born 2002-05-14
,
2. ♀ Farha born 2005-05-03
,
3. ♀ Indi born 1986-02-28
,
4. ♀ Omysha born 2014-06-17
,
5. ♀ Ruwani born 2017-02-25
,
6. ♂ Thai born 2004-11-26
,
7. ♂ Umesh born 2020-02-05
, (see detailed list).

Offspring

1. (F) 1984-07-27 -- † 1995-04-02 Komali EEP id: 8410
2. (F) 1989-02-13 Panang EEP id: 8902
3. (M) 1994-11-14 Upali EEP id: 9407
4. (M) 1997-09-08 -- † 1999-11-20 Xian EEP id: 9701
5. (M) 2000-06-10 -- † 2003-10-15 Aishu EEP id: 20002
6. (F) 2005-05-03 Farha EEP id: 200507

Origin

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

Ceyla-Himali is the breeder in Zoo Zuerich.

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/Ceyla-Himali (Google Translated version)

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: 1975-07-01
• More elephants that was imported: 1976
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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• Ceyla (Ceyla-Himali) 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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