Mapalay an Asian elephant at Ruhr Zoo, Gelsenkirchen

☨ ♀ Mapalay

Identification

EEP nr	7118
SSP nr	752

Description

Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀ 44 years old
Origin
Born:	* 1954 wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead date:	† 1998-04-30
Death reason:	unknown:
Offspring
Total: 3 babies

1. Born 1968-11-10 (dead † 1968-11-10)	♀ killed EEP id: 6815

2. Born 1970-12-07 (dead † 1998-04-24)	♂ Ramon EEP id: 7011 SSP id: 755

3. Born 1973-06-28 (dead † 1975)	♀ Suma (Rhani) EEP id: 7308
Locations
Present / last location:	Ruhr Zoo, Gelsenkirchen, in Germany

Date of Arrival (Presently sometimes errors!)

1971-11-03	Ruhr Zoo, Gelsenkirchen from Hannover Zoo Hannover Zoo 1964-00-00 from Circus Knie

Document updated	2016-01-05:Â EEP nr, SSP nr
Random literature

Description

† Mapalay is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant, (Elephas maximus), who died at Ruhr Zoo, Gelsenkirchen, in Germany, of from unknown reasons in 1998-04-30. (see detailed list).

Offspring

Mapalay was born wild 1954.

Reference listKoehl, Dan, (2021). Mapalay, an Asian elephant at Ruhr Zoo, Gelsenkirchen in Germany. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 10 April 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=733. (archived at the Wayback machine)