Oji an Asian elephant at Kobe Oiji Zoo

☨ ♂ Oji
Alternative name:	Ouji
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Male ♂ 5 years old
Id number	JAZA Number: ?
Origin
Born:	* 2007-10-21 captive-born
Birth place:	in Kobe Oiji Zoo

Parents:	♂ Mac x ♀ Zuzanna
Death
Dead date:	† 2012-04-07
Death reason:	accident: right foreleg fracture
Locations
Present / last location:	Kobe Oiji Zoo, in Japan

Date of Arrival (Presently sometimes errors!)

2007-10-21	Kobe Oiji Zoo

Document updated	2018-05-04: death date, reason 2018-10-01: link to EleWiki submitted
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Description

† Oji is a dead Male ♂ Asian elephant, (Elephas maximus), who died at Kobe Oiji Zoo, in Japan, of accident in 2012-04-07. Official death reason described as right foreleg fracture. (see detailed list).

Origin

Oji was born captive-born 2007-10-21 at Kobe Oiji Zoo.

Parentage

Parents of Oji are: ♂ Mac (father) and ♀ Zuzanna (mother).

Siblings through the father Mac:

2002-01-11 -- † 2002-01-11 (F) stillborn
2004-03-02 -- † 2005-04-25 (F) Momo
2014-06-12(M) Yuuki

Siblings through the mother Zuzanna:

2002-01-11 - † 2002-01-11 (F) stillborn
2004-03-02 - † 2005-04-25 (F) Momo
2014-06-12(M) Yuuki

Pedigree

**Ojis pedigree:**
P	I	II	III
Oji	Sire: Mac	Sire: Maxi	Sire:
		Sire: Maxi	Dame:
		Dame: Claudy (Claudia)	Sire:
		Dame: Claudy (Claudia)	Dame:
	Dame: Zuzanna	Sire: Radsch	Sire:
		Sire: Radsch	Dame:
		Dame: Zita	Sire:
		Dame: Zita	Dame:

Comments / pictures

Was bottle fed, but the zoo was trying to back him to the mother Zuze.

2008: At one year old Oji fractured his right foreleg, and could not stand since then.

He died on 7.Apr.2012. His age was 4 year 5 month.

Reference listKoehl, Dan, (2020). Oji, an Asian at Kobe Oiji Zoo in Japan. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 15 January 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=3303. (archived at the Wayback machine)