Rani
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
St Louis Zoo in United States

1. (F) 2007-02-25 Jade SSP id: 646
2. (F) 2011-06-24 -- † 2018-02-24 Kenzi SSP id: 737
3. (M) 2020-07-06 -- † 2020-08-02 Avi SSP id: 00

Rani was born captive-born 1996-07-05 at Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens.

Siblings through the father Indy (Butch):

1. 1990-05-12 -- † 1990-05-12 (M) stillborn
2. 1991-07-10(M) Emmett (Tundi)
3. 1993-12-14 -- † 1995-04-26 (F) Kumari
4. 1995-06-20(F) Kirina
5. 1997-02-28(F) Mali
6. 2000-02-10 -- † 2003-04-12 (F) Preya
7. 2001-05-06 -- † 2001-05-06 (F) stillborn
8. 2005-07-31 -- † 2005-08-04 (M) Kedar
9. 2006-06-08 -- † 2006-06-08 (F) stillborn

Siblings through the mother Ellie:

1. 2006-08-02(F) Maliha
2. 2010-07-08 - † 2010-07-08 (F) miscarriage
3. 2013-04-26(F) Priya

Pedigree

In February 2007, eleven year old Rani gave birth to her first calf, Jade. A first time mother, she did not accept the newborn, leading to the the calf being handraised by staff.

In January 2010, the St. Louis Zoo announced that Rani was pregant for a second time, bred naturally by the zoo's breeding bull Raja. She gave birth to the calf in summer 2011 and displayed protect mother instincts.

Article at ShowMe Elephants: "St. Louis Zoo - Kenzi"

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Ryan Easley, USA
• "St. Louis Zoo's elephant Rani is pregnant," Elephant-News.com, 2010-01-20
  
• https://www.stlzoo.org/animals/abouttheanimals/mammals/asianelephant/ranis-pregnancy
• Elefanten-wiki on elefanten.wikia.com http://elefanten.wikia.com/wiki/Rani_(St.Louis) (Google Translated version)

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• More elephants from: St Louis Zoo
• More elephants from: United States
• More elephants that was born: 1996-07-05
• More elephants that died: 2023-1-13
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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• Rani 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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