Swarna an Asian elephant at Smithsonian National Zoological Park

Location

Swarna is a living Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), located at Smithsonian National Zoological Park, in United States.

Swarna arrived Smithsonian National Zoological Park 2014-05-22, relocated from Calgary Zoo, in Canada.

In Smithsonian National Zoological Park, Swarna lives together with 4 other elephants with records in this database: (detailed list)

1. ♀ Bozie born 1975
,
2. ♀ Kamala born 1975-09-00
,
3. ♀ Maharani (Rani) born 1990-07-14
,
4. ♂ Spike (Ganesha) born 1981-07-02
, (see detailed list).

Origin

Swarna was born wild 1975.

Swarna was a wild born orphan in Sri Lanka. Kamala, Swarna and a bull who died in 1991, Bandara, all arrived at the Calgary Zoo in May 1976 from the Sri Lanka National Zoo.

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Brent Van Hooft, Calgary Zoo
• Elephant Injures Zoo Keeper at Calgary Zoo, 2008-05-18

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: Smithsonian National Zoological Park
• More elephants from: United States
• More elephants that was born: 1975
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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