Api Elephant Domestication Center in Congo


Api Elephant Domestication Center
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Founded1899
First elephant arrived1902
Last elephant left1930
Closed down1930
Place Api
Country Congo
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Description

Api Elephant Domestication Center, in Api, Congo , was founded in 1899 and the first elephant arrived in 1902. The last elephant left in 1930. Api Elephant Domestication Center closed down in 1930.


Comments / picturesElephants were caught at the elephant Hunting reserve of the Bas Uele.

For many years all capture and training operations were coordinated by Commandant P.P.M. Offerman.
1910: 35 elephants.
1930: All elephants moved to Gangala-na-bodio some 250 miles east on Api.


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Koehl, Dan (2023). Api Elephant Domestication Center, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=1160. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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