Haakon an Asian elephant at Givskud Zoo

☨ ♂ Haakon
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Male ♂ 7 years old
Id number	EEP Number: 8308
Origin
Born:	* 1983-03-18 captive-born
Birth place:	in Copenhagen Zoo

Parents:	♂ Chieng Mai x ♀ Buag Hah (Pang Yang)
Death
Dead date:	† 1990-09-07
Death reason:	unknown:
Locations
Present / last location:	Givskud Zoo, in Denmark

Date of Arrival (Presently sometimes errors!)

1988-11-16	Givskud Zoo from Odense Zoo (Odense Dyrehave) Odense Zoo (Odense Dyrehave) 1985-06-11 from Copenhagen Zoo

Document updated	2020-10-01
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Description

† Haakon is a dead Male ♂ Asian elephant, (Elephas maximus), who died at Givskud Zoo, in Denmark, of from unknown reasons in 1990-09-07. (see detailed list).

Origin

Haakon was born captive-born 1983-03-18 at Copenhagen Zoo.

Parentage

Parents of Haakon are: ♂ Chieng Mai (father) and ♀ Buag Hah (Pang Yang) (mother).

Siblings through the father Chieng Mai:

1970-09-18(F) Irma
1975-12-15(F) Schottzie
1980-03-31 -- † 1984-09-08 (F) Maia
1981-11-10 -- † 2020-07-24 (M) Chang
1986-01-22 -- † 2003-09-21 (F) Coco
1991-10-28 -- † 1991-10-28 (F) noname
1996-03-15 -- † 2006-02-09 (M) Santosh
1997-02-17 -- † 1997-06-19 (M) Hannibal
2001-12-02 -- † 2003-10-06 (M) Punjab
2006-03-20(M) Gandhi
2013-02-25 -- † 2014-11-24 (M) Khao Sok
2013-08-26 -- † 2013-08-26 (F) stillborn
2015-09-04 -- † 2015-09-04 (M) stillborn
2017-05-17(M) Sak

Siblings through the mother Buag Hah (Pang Yang):

1970-09-18(F) Irma
1975-12-15(F) Schottzie
1980-03-31 - † 1984-09-08 (F) Maia
1986-01-22 - † 2003-09-21 (F) Coco

Pedigree

**Haakons pedigree:**
P	I	II	III
Haakon	Sire: Chieng Mai	Sire:	Sire:
		Sire:	Dame:
		Dame:	Sire:
		Dame:	Dame:
	Dame: Buag Hah (Pang Yang)	Sire:	Sire:
		Sire:	Dame:
		Dame:	Sire:
		Dame:	Dame:

Comments / pictures

Haakon lost the tip of his trunk in an accident, when one of the females in Givskude grabbed and pulled it, over the edge between the boxes.

Reference listKoehl, Dan, (2020). Haakon, an Asian at Givskud Zoo in Denmark. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 27 February 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=596. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

Elefanten in Zoo und Circus, EEG: Haufellner, Kurt, Schilfarth, Schweiger

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Categories1990 deaths | 1983 births | Elephants from Givskud Zoo | Denmark | Asian elephants

This document was updated: 2020-10-18 06:25:24