Ruwani
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Zurich Zoo in Switzerland

Location

Ruwani is a living Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) , located at the Zurich Zoo, in Switzerland.

Ruwani arrived in 2017-02-25 to the Zurich Zoo, Ruwani lives together with 7 other elephants at the Zurich Zoo:

1. ♀ Ceyla (Ceyla-Himali) born 1975-07-01
2. ♀ Chandra born 2002-05-14
3. ♀ Farha born 2005-05-03
4. ♀ Indi born 1986-02-28
5. ♀ Omysha born 2014-06-17
6. ♂ Thai born 2004-11-26
7. ♂ Umesh born 2020-02-05

Origin

Ruwani was born captive-born 2017-02-25 at Zurich Zoo.

Parentage

Siblings through the father Thai:

1. 2020-02-05(M) Umesh
2. 2020-04-05(F) unnnamed
3. 2020-08-19 -- † 2020-08-19 (M) Unnamed

Siblings through the mother Farha:

1. 2020-04-05(F) unnnamed

Pedigree

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• https://www.facebook.com/zoozuerich
  
• https://www.srf.ch/news/regional/zuerich-schaffhausen/der-kleine-elefant-hat-einen-namen
• Elefanten-wiki on elefanten.wikia.com http://elefanten.wikia.com/wiki/Ruwani (Google Translated version)

Relevant links

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: Zurich Zoo
• More elephants from: Switzerland
• More elephants that was born: 2017-02-25
• 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)

• Ruwani 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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