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

† Ruwani is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 2022-07-23 at Zurich Zoo, in Switzerland, . Official death reason described as Elephant endotheliotropic herpes virus.

Origin

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

Parentage

Siblings through the father Thai:

1. 2020-02-05 -- † 2022-06-29 (M) Umesh
2. 2020-02-05 -- † 2022-06-28 (M) Umesh
3. 2020-04-05(F) unnnamed
4. 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
  
• https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ruwani-becomes-third-elephant-die-herpes-virus-zurich-zoo-2022-07-23/
• 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
• More elephants that died: 2022-07-23
• 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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• Asianelephant.net
• Billboard
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• circushistory.org
• Elephant_Commentator
• Elefanten-Fotolexikon.eu
• elefanten.wikia
• Google Internet search
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• ZooChat
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