Farha
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Zurich Zoo in Switzerland

Location

Farha is a living Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) , located at the Zurich Zoo, in Switzerland.

Farha arrived in 2005-05-03 to the Zurich Zoo, Farha lives together with 7 other elephants at the Zurich Zoo:

1. ♀ Ceyla (Ceyla-Himali) born 1975-07-01
2. ♀ Chandra born 2002-05-14
3. ♀ Indi born 1986-02-28
4. ♀ Omysha born 2014-06-17
5. ♀ Ruwani born 2017-02-25
6. ♂ Thai born 2004-11-26
7. ♂ Umesh born 2020-02-05

Offspring

1. (F) 2017-02-25 Ruwani EEP id: 201705
2. (F) 2020-04-05 unnnamed EEP id: 202008

Origin

Farha was born captive-born 2005-05-03 at Zurich Zoo.

Parentage

Siblings through the father Maxi:

1. 1984-07-27 -- † 1995-04-02 (F) Komali
2. 1985-05-24 -- † 1988-07-21 (F) Lohimi
3. 1986-05-22 -- † 1986-05-22 (F) stillborn
4. 1989-02-13(F) Panang
5. 1992-06-13(M) Mac
6. 1993-12-00 -- † 1993-12-00 () stillborn
7. 1994-11-14(M) Upali
8. 1997-09-08 -- † 1999-11-20 (M) Xian
9. 2000-06-10 -- † 2003-10-15 (M) Aishu
10. 2002-05-14(F) Chandra
11. 2005-07-24(M) Fahim
12. 2014-06-17(F) Omysha

Siblings through the mother Ceyla (Ceyla-Himali):

1. 1984-07-27 - † 1995-04-02 (F) Komali
2. 1989-02-13(F) Panang
3. 1994-11-14(M) Upali
4. 1997-09-08 - † 1999-11-20 (M) Xian
5. 2000-06-10 - † 2003-10-15 (M) Aishu

Pedigree

During March 2007 Farha started to show signs oh herpes virus infection, but is well again since Mai 2007.

Farha is mentioned on Elephant News:

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• http://www.upali.ch (Georges Frei, Switzerland)
• Andrea Vonau, Switzerland

Relevant links

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: Zurich Zoo
• More elephants from: Switzerland
• More elephants that was born: 2005-05-03
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

Farha mentioned on our sister website www.elephant-news.com

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