Kenny an African savanna elephant at Basel Zoo

☨ ♂ Kenny

Identification

EEP nr	6904

Description

Species:	African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana)
Sex and age:	Male ♂ 31 years old
Body height:	3.20 meter, 10.5 feet
Origin
Born:	* 1967 wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead date:	† 1998-05-19
Death reason:	disease: joint/hind leg problem
Offspring
Total: 2 babies

1. Born 1992-03-20 (dead † 1992-03-20)	♀ stillborn

2. Born 1992-04-09 (dead † 2013-01-23)	♂ Pambo EEP id: 9201
Locations
Present / last location:	Basel Zoo, in Switzerland

Date of Arrival (Presently sometimes errors!)

1984-08-02	Basel Zoo from Hannover Zoo Hannover Zoo 1978-01-00 from Mary Chipperfield

Document updated	2017-03-08: link to ele-wiki submitted 2017-03-08: link to Elefanten-Fotolexikon (Petra Prager) submitted
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Description

† Kenny is a dead Male ♂ African savanna elephant, (Loxodonta africana), who died at Basel Zoo, in Switzerland, of disease in 1998-05-19. Official death reason described as joint/hind leg problem. (see detailed list).

Offspring

Total: 2 babies

(F) 1992-03-20 -- † 1992-03-20 stillborn
(M) 1992-04-09 -- † 2013-01-23 Pambo EEP id: 9201

Origin

Kenny was born wild 1967.

Reference listKoehl, Dan, (2021). Kenny, an African savanna elephant at Basel Zoo in Switzerland. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 19 June 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=9. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

height: Henry Merker, Tiergarten-Forum
Elefanten in Zoo und Circus, EEG: Haufellner, Kurt, Schilfarth, Schweiger
Elefanten-wiki on elefanten.wikia.com http://elefanten.wikia.com/wiki/Pambo (Google Translated version)
African Elephant Studbook, Europe Regional EEP
by Amelia Terkel, Zoological center Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Israel

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