Guitara
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Unknown in Unknown

Biography

☨ ♀ Guitara

Identification

EEP nr	9002

Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀, unknown age
Status:	Lost to follow-up
Management:	Assumed dead
Origin
Born:	* 1969? unknown
Birth place:
Capture:	1975
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Unknown, in Unknown

Date of arrival

1995-11-15	Unknown from Longleat Safari Park

1995-03-29	Longleat Safari Park from Belfast Zoo

1990-01-19	Belfast Zoo from Twycross Zoo

Record history
History of updates	2011-10-04: previous Bollette, merged with http://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=1805 2013-04-30: text 2018-11-28: assumed dead

Latest document update	2020-10-18 06:25:24

† Guitara is a dead Lost to follow-up Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , assumed dead at the Unknown in , in Unknown.

Origin

Guitara was born unknown 1969?, captured 1975 .

Comments / pictures

In Belfast: 'Guitara' did not cycle normally and despite hormone treatment did not conceive.

1995: Supposed to have been sold to unknown circus.

Records about Guitara from EEPEuropean Studbook for Asian elephants state following records for the asian elephant Guitara:

9002 F ~ 1969 WILD WILD WILD ~ 1975 NONE Capture Guitara
TWYCROSS 1 Apr 1975 816 Transfer
BELFAST 19 Jan 1990 266 Transfer
LONGLEAT 29 Mar 1995 ______ Transfer
CIRCUS 15 Nov 1995 ______ ltf Transfer

Source: EEP studbook for Asian elephants online

Most probably dead, at unknown location

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Guitara, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Unknown in Unknown. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 11 July 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=3492. (archived at the Wayback machine)