Frosja
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Sofia Zoo in Bulgaria

Location

Frosja is a living Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) , located at the Sofia Zoo, in Bulgaria.

Frosja arrived in 2023-09-21 to the Sofia Zoo, relocated from the Augsburg Zoo, in Germany.

1. ♀ Louise born 1973

Origin

Frosja was born unknown 1980-00-00 at Laos unspecified location, captured 1983 .

Captured 1983 on request of the Laos Government, who planned to give her as official gift to country of Cuba.
She arrived Cuba on ship, but her vaccination against Hoof and Mouth Disease made her classified as potential spreader of this disease, according to the officials in Cuba, a country which so far never had this disease.

The director of Havanna Zoo Mr Moreno, contacted zoos around the world if they could recieve her, and she ended up in Moscow Zoo instead.

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Elefanten-wiki on elefanten.wikia.com http://elefanten.wikia.com/wiki/Frosja (Google Translated version)

Relevant links

Internal relevant links

• List of all recorded elephants in: European studbook for Asian elephants
• More elephants from: Sofia Zoo
• More elephants from: Bulgaria
• More elephants that was born: 1980-00-00
• More elephants that was captured: 1983
• 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)

• Frosja 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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