Irma
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Rotterdam Zoo in Netherlands

Location

Irma is a living Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) , located at the Rotterdam Zoo, in Netherlands.

Irma arrived in 1975-09-17 to the Rotterdam Zoo, relocated from the Copenhagen Zoo, in Denmark.

1. ♀ Bangka born 2000-11-28
2. ♀ Faya born 2010-07-20
3. ♂ Maxi born 2022-10-09
4. ♂ Radjik born 2021-05-05

Offspring

1. (F) 1984-06-16 Bernhardine (Bernhardini) EEP id: 8408
2. (F) 1990-11-25 Yasmin EEP id: 9008 SSP id: 756
3. (F) 1995-03-01 -- † 1998-07-13 Indira EEP id: 9500
4. (F) 2000-11-28 Bangka EEP id: 20005
5. (M) 2004-02-21 Sibu EEP id: 200401
6. (F) 2007-12-28 -- † 2007-12-28 unborn EEP id: 200710
7. (F) 2009-02-11 -- † 2009-02-11 stillborn EEP id: 200903

Origin

Irma was born captive-born 1970-09-18 at Copenhagen Zoo.

Parentage

Siblings through the father Chieng Mai:

1. 1975-12-15(F) Schottzie
2. 1980-03-31 -- † 1984-09-08 (F) Maia
3. 1981-11-10 -- † 2020-07-24 (M) Chang
4. 1983-03-18 -- † 1990-09-07 (M) Haakon
5. 1986-01-22 -- † 2003-09-21 (F) Coco
6. 1991-10-28 -- † 1991-10-28 (F) noname
7. 1996-03-15 -- † 2006-02-09 (M) Santosh
8. 1997-02-17 -- † 1997-06-19 (M) Hannibal
9. 2001-12-02 -- † 2003-10-06 (M) Punjab
10. 2006-03-20(M) Gandhi
11. 2013-02-25 -- † 2014-11-24 (M) Khao Sok
12. 2013-08-26 -- † 2013-08-26 (F) stillborn
13. 2015-09-04 -- † 2015-09-04 (M) stillborn
14. 2017-05-17 -- † 2022-08-26 (M) Sak

Siblings through the mother Buag Hah (Pang Yang):

1. 1975-12-15(F) Schottzie
2. 1980-03-31 - † 1984-09-08 (F) Maia
3. 1983-03-18 - † 1990-09-07 (M) Haakon
4. 1986-01-22 - † 2003-09-21 (F) Coco

Pedigree

2008-01-02: Employees of the zoo in Rotterdam were counting of a birth around the Christmas and New Year days, but they think the calf is dead by now. Last Friday the membranes of Irma broke. Normally the delivery will begin and within 48 hours the calf is born. The contractions however didn't start, even after the vetenarian had given her stimulating medicines and massaging the birthchannel.

Yesterday our vets removed the dead calf from Irma. She carried her fullgrown female baby for more then a year. The birth of Tonya and sucking Irma's nipples have started the birth process. Irma tried for more then a day to deliver the calf and she was exhausted. So we decided to do a surgery and to remove the dead calf. During the surgery under local anasthesia Irma was standing on her Feet all time. The vets opened her birth channel from the backside, just a few centimeters under her anus. They made an incision from ca. 15 cm. and tried to pull the dead calf out. Unfortunately without succes. So the team decided to devide the calf in pieces. Smaller pieces have been removed throuh this hole and the bigger pieces were pushed through her birth channel. Finally, after 12 hours work with a marvelous team, they managed the remove all pieces and could close the wound. Today Irma was doing well. She is recieving pain relief and the wound has been flushed several times.
This was the second time our vets did such a surgery. Years ago (in 1993) they used this method to remove a dead calf from Raja (now in Mallorca).
Rob Belterman, Rotterdam Zoo, 2009-02-12

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Martijn Fabrie
• Peter Stolk, Netherlands
• Elephants and Egotists by Patricia Sumerling

Relevant links

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: Rotterdam Zoo
• More elephants from: Netherlands
• More elephants that was born: 1970-09-18
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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