Fantik an Asian elephant at Franjo Gärtner

☨ ♂ Fantik

Identification

EEP nr	9308

Description

Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Male ♂ 4 years old
Origin
Born:	* 1992-09-29 captive-born
Birth place:	in Odessa Zoo

Parents:	♂ Tarun x ♀
Death
Dead date:	† 1996-04-01
Death reason:	disease: Rachitis
Locations
Present / last location:	Franjo Gärtner, in Croatia

Date of Arrival (Presently sometimes errors!)

1995-09-26	Franjo Gärtner from Odessa Zoo

Document updated	2011-06-22: correction of location 2012-01-30: video
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Description

† Fantik is a dead Male ♂ Asian elephant, (Elephas maximus), who died at Franjo Gärtner, in Croatia, of disease in 1996-04-01. Official death reason described as Rachitis. (see detailed list).

Origin

Fantik was born captive-born 1992-09-29 at Odessa Zoo.

Parentage

Parents of Fantik are: ♂ Tarun (father) and ♀ (mother).

Siblings through the father Tarun:

1998-07-19(F) Tendi
2004-10-17 -- † 2006? (M) Duke

Pedigree

**Fantiks pedigree:**
P	I	II	III
Fantik	Sire: Tarun	Sire:	Sire:
		Sire:	Dame:
		Dame:	Sire:
		Dame:	Dame:
	Dame:	Sire:	Sire:
		Sire:	Dame:
		Dame:	Sire:
		Dame:	Dame:

Comments / pictures

rejected from mother, handreared

Reference listKoehl, Dan, (2021). Fantik, an Asian elephant at Franjo Gärtner in Croatia. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 9 May 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=947. (archived at the Wayback machine)