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Elephants dead 1940
22 records of elephants deaths in the
database
during 1940
Name
Species - Sex
Birth
Death
Age
Reason
Location
Runga
EM - M
1927
1940-11-07
13
euthanised
shot, aggressive
Bronx Zoo
Brahma
EM - M
1940-11-00
?
age
Circus Krone
Tess (Tessie)
EM - F
1940-09-27
?
disease
Tetanus and Lung problems
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Yavaranee
EM -
1940-09-19
?
euthanised
"destroyed"
Dudley Zoo
unknown
EM - F
1920
1940-09-18
20
Dudley Zoo
Latschini
EM - F
1935
1940-08-15
5
unknown
Frankfurt Zoo
Sugar (Penny, Katie?)
EM - F
1915
1940-07-12
25
killed
shot with rifle, aggressive, almost killed elephant keeper Jim Brown
Fort Worth Zoo
Wallace Dutchess
EM - F
1940-07-10
?
accident
Died in fire at Goebels facility
Jungleland Thousand Oaks animal farm (Louis Goebel)
Lizzie (Empress)
EM - F
1898
1940-06-24
42
unknown
Philadelphia Zoo
Katie (Little Katie)
EM - F
1940-02-21
?
accident
fire
Cole Brothers Circus
Ding (DIng-Dong)
EM - F
1940-02-21
?
accident
fire
Cole Brothers Circus
Jumbo
LA - M
1940
?
disease
tuberculosis
Dresden Zoo
Bosco
EM - M
1940
?
unknown
Paris Zoo Vincennes
Ramo (Romino)
EM - M
1911
1940
29
unknown
San Antonio Zoo
Lizzie
EM - F
1940
?
disease
heart attack?
Maidstone Zoo (Sir Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake)
Joe
EM - M
1940
?
killed
Executed
Jungleland Thousand Oaks animal farm (Louis Goebel)
Jenny
EM - F
1940
?
unknown
Menagerie du Paris Jardin des Plantes
Bebe
EM - F
1940
?
unknown
Menagerie du Paris Jardin des Plantes
Sambo
EM - M
1940
?
unknown
Paris Zoo Vincennes
Sabine
EM - F
1940
?
unknown
Amsterdam Artis Zoo
Rosie
EM - F
1928
1940
12
killed
aggressive and dangerous
Chessington World of Adventures (Chessington Zoo)
Krishna
EM - M
1940
?
shot
shot during loading on a transport in 1940 after he destroyed the transport container.
Wuppertal Zoo
Internal links about elephant deaths:
Deaths throughout the years
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Sex: M is a male elephant bull, F is a female elephant cow. Species: LA is
african bush/savanna elephant
(Loxodonta africana), LC is
african forest elephant
(Loxodonta cyclotis), EM is
asian elephant
(Elephas maximus) Status: (of training method) FC
Free contact
, PC is
Protected contact
, CC is
Confined contact
and NC is
No contact
and
dead
means that the elephant is not more living and trained.
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