Important message: CNN claim, in an article written by CNN journalists Kay Jones and Hollie Silvermanthe on August 3, 2020 on the website of CNN.com the following: There are less than 3,500 Asian elephants left in the wild and they face extinction because of ivory poaching and habitat destruction, the zoo statement said..in the article Baby elephant dies 27 days after his birth at St. Louis Zoo, but the article doesnt really state why ivory poaching should be an immediate threat to Asian elephants, and their claims of the world population of Asian elephants, is however also something to doubt.. Although IUCN seems to have forgotten to state the world population of Asian elephants at Their fact sheet about the Asian elephant, while the Asian Elephant Specialist Group state that there are elephants in 13 range states, but AESG seemingly also forgot to mention how many Asian elephants there are today, and on their website https://www.asesg.org it is also not easy to find a record about the world population of Asian elephants, but International Elephant Foundation state on the page Elephas maximus: Endangered due to loss of habitat. Numbers are currently around 30,000 – 50,000 (one-tenth of the population of African elephants, and no mention about ivory hunting in Asia), which is a number far, or rather more than ten times higher than the claim from cnn.com =There are NOT less than 3,500 Asian elephants left in the wild, as cnn claim.//Dan Koehl

12 records of elephants deaths in the database during 1917

Name Species - Sex	Birth	Death	Age	Reason	Location
Suffa Culli EM - F	1894	1917-12-02	23	euthanised poisoned and shot	died 41 years after arrival 1876-05-17 at London Zoo
Nelly EM - F	1890	1917-11-00	27	unknown	died 22 years after arrival 1895-00-00 at Leipzig Zoo
Jimbo (Baby Jimbo) EM - M		1917-10-24	?	unknown	died 3 years after arrival 1914-04-01 at London Zoo
Miss Kumbuk EM - F		1917-08-18	?	unknown	died 31 years after arrival 1886-04-30 at Basel Zoo
Jenny EM - F	1883	1917-08-01	34	unknown	died 23 years after arrival 1894-10-10 at Wroclaw Zoo (Zoo Breslau)
unknown LC - M		1917-06-23	?	unknown	died 3 years after arrival 1914-07-28 at Berlin Zoo
stillborn EM - F	1917-06-20	1917-06-20	0	stillborn	died 0 years after arrival 1917-06-20 at Sells-Floto Circus
Dunk (Duncan) EM - M	1866	1917-03-30	51	accident broken shoulder after falling	died 26 years after arrival 1891-04-30 at Smithsonian National Zoological Park
Toodles (Tambus) EM - M		1917	?	unknown	died 1 years after arrival 1916-00-00 at Great J. E. Henry Show
Hatnee EM - F		1917	?	disease Heart disease	died 40 years after arrival 1877-00-00 at Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden
Bupari II EM - F	1905	1917	12	disease Volvulus	died 8 years after arrival 1909-00-00 at Halle Zoo
Jenny EM - F		1917	?	unknown	died 7 years after arrival 1910-00-00 at Moscow Zoo (Moskovskii Zoopark)