Banna an Asian elephant at Shanghai Zoo

† Banna is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant, (Elephas maximus), who died at Shanghai Zoo, in China, of age in 2018-11-25. (see detailed list).

Offspring

1. (F) 1982-12-31 -- † 2006 Erna
2. (unknown) 1986 -- † 1996 Sai Mo
3. (unknown) 1989 -- † 2001-05-02 Asi
4. (F) 1992 -- † 2006 Meina (Lina)
5. (M) 1996-04-12 -- † 2008 Kangkang
6. (M) 2002-03-10 -- † Dong Dong
7. (F) 2006-11-00 unknown

Origin

Banna was born wild 1964.

Most of the zoo's animals come from exchange programmes with other countries, while a few of them were seized from nature during the 1950s and 60s, when China had no laws for animal protection. The 38-year-old elephant, "Banna", was caught in Xishuangbanna in Yunnan Province.
Looking to Die in Dignity, 2002-06-13

A 54-year-old Asian elephant Banna who has been living in the Shanghai Zoo for 46 years passed away quietly on Sunday, stirring mourning by animal lovers who had shared good times with this old friend.

As a senior inhabitant of the zoo, the wild female elephant first moved to Shanghai at the beginning of the 1970s and gave birth to eight baby elephants, the highest number of offspring bred by Asian elephant in Chinese zoos

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Henrique Leite
• Jonas Livet, France
  
• http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-11/27/c_137633005.htm?fbclid=IwAR1Zg9o_aBfRwue0MQLUPBaA0v7ODdIXo2WU9yhaynEN9Xse2PhMda0_f30#0-fbook-1-65830-b182d7286068ff4101843e17368e4b10
  

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: Shanghai Zoo
• More elephants from: China
• More elephants that was born: 1964
• More elephants that died: 2018-11-25
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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