Deceased elephants at Rome Zoo in Italy

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This database list 20 dead elephants

Nr Sex Species Name Id Status Arrival locationImport
1+ ♀ LC Carla 13Born: wild 1978 Dead:1991-03-18 (10 years after arrival), accident pushed in the dry moat by male Calimero1981-11-04
2+ ♂ LC Ercolino 3Born: wild 1973 Dead:1976-12-24 (3 years after arrival), unknown 1973-11-20
3+ ♀ EM Nelly EEP id: 7212 42Born: wild 1970 Dead:2012-10-18 (40 years after arrival), disease cancer?1972-09-19 Turin Zoo
4+ ♂ LA Jumbo 42Born: wild Dead:1979-10-06 (23 years after arrival), unknown 1956-09-20 Naples Fuorigrotta Zoo
5+ ♀ EM Zuma EEP id: 5501 < 1 42Born: captive-born 1955-07-03
Romeo II x Giulietta II (Giulie)
Dead:1955-12-31, unknown 		1955-07-03
6+ ♀ LA Babar 42Born: wild Dead:1970-04-21 (15 years after arrival), unknown 1955-05-31
7+ ♀ EM stillborn EEP id: 5304 < 1 42Born: captive-born 1953-09-11
Romeo II x Giulietta II (Giulie)
Dead:1953-09-11, stillborn 		1953-09-11
8+ ♂ EM Remo EEP id: 5006 2Born: captive-born 1950-09-02
Romeo II x Giulietta II (Giulie)
Dead:1952-12-24 (2 years after arrival), disease Gastritis		1950-09-02
9+ ♀ EM Roma EEP id: 4802 20Born: captive-born 1948-08-06
Romeo II x Giulietta II (Giulie)
Dead:1968-04-13 (20 years after arrival), disease pneumonia		1948-08-06
10+ ♀ EM Giulietta II (Giulie) 41Born: wild 1930 Dead:1971-07-13 (34 years after arrival), unknown 1937-12-03
11+ ♂ EM Romeo II 41Born: wild Dead:1965-01-19 (28 years after arrival), unknown 1937-12-03 Carl Hagenbecks Tierpark (Stellingen)
12+ ♀ EM Sandrina 41Born: wild Dead:1935-07-05 (6 years after arrival), disease Tuberculosis1929-05-12
13+ ♀ EM Giulietta 41Born: wild Dead:1933-11-06 (6 years after arrival), unknown 1927-09-27
14+ ♂ EM Pluto II 20Born: wild 1907 Dead:1927-07-15 (5 years after arrival), disease Cerebral congestion1922-00-00 Circus Krone
15+ ♀ EM Minnie (Minni) 20Born: wild Dead:1924-02-11 (14 years after arrival), unknown 1910-11-01 Carl Hagenbecks Tierpark (Stellingen)
16+ ♀ EM Greti 20Born: wild Dead:, killed attacked by Rosi1910-11-01 Carl Hagenbecks Tierpark (Stellingen)
17+ ♂ LA Toto 20Born: wild Dead:1939 (29 years after arrival), disease 1910-11-00 Carl Hagenbecks Tierpark (Stellingen)1910
18+ ♂ EM Boby 20Born: wild Dead:1937-09-07, unknown
19+ ♂ EM Romeo 20Born: wild Dead:1927-07-18, disease acute gastroenteritis Circus Bisini
20+ ♀ EM Rosi 20Born: wild Dead:, unknown

Source for the list of elephants deceased at Rome Zoo

Reference list

Facts about Deceased elephants at Rome Zoo in Italy, Elephant Encyclopedia, Koehl, D. (2026), available online retrieved 13 March 2026 at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=300 (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this list:

Latest updateName of elephantSource (if it is a website, the target website will open in new window)
2012-10-21 Nelly:• http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/News/Cronaca/Lutto-al-Bioparco-di-Roma-morta-a-45-anni-lelefantessa-Nelly_313804743872.html
•  EEG Magazine nr 16, Dec 2009, by European Elephant Group
2012-07-01 Toto:• Spartaco Gippoliti, One elephant, a museum specimen and two colonialisms: the history of M’Totofrom German Tanganyika to Rome
•  https://www.zoochat.com/community/threads/analyzing-the-history-and-evolution-of-romes-zoo-through-maps-and-medias.486417/
2012-07-01 Minnie (Minni):• Spartaco Gippoliti, Rome, Italy
2012-07-01 Jumbo:• Spartaco Gippoliti
•  http://giardinozoologicodiroma.it/Collegamenti/Elefanti.html
•  Critical inventory of Loxodonta and Elephas (Mammalia, Proboscidea) cranial remains in the collections of the Museo Civico di Zoologia of Rome, https://shorturl.at/nvxO4
2012-07-01 Carla:• The African Forest Elephant and its status in captivity. Part 1: Europe, by Don Cousins, International Zoo News No. 251 (41/2) March 1994. Online list at http://www.zoochat.com/2/african-forest-elephants-completely-gone-zoos-215250/index2.html
•  http://giardinozoologicodiroma.it/Collegamenti/Elefanti.html
•  Spartaco Gippoliti, Rome, Italy
2012-02-25 Ercolino:• The African Forest Elephant and its status in captivity. Part 1: Europe, by Don Cousins, International Zoo News No. 251 (41/2) March 1994. Online list at http://www.zoochat.com/2/african-forest-elephants-completely-gone-zoos-215250/index2.html (named Eroclino there)
•  Spartaco Gippoliti, Rome, Italy
2011-03-11 stillborn:• 
Elephants and Egotists by Patricia Sumerling
2009-01-19 Giulietta II (Giulie):• Spartaco Gippoliti, Rome
2008-10-15 Pluto II:• Spartaco Gippoliti, Rome, Italy
2008-10-15 Romeo II:• Spartaco Gippoliti, Rome
2008-10-15 Romeo:• Spartaco Gippoliti, Rome, Italy
2008-10-15 Sandrina:• Spartaco Gippoliti, Rome, Italy
2008-10-15 Boby:• Spartaco Gippoliti, Rome, Italy
2008-10-15 Giulietta:• Spartaco Gippoliti, Rome, Italy
2008-10-15 Greti:• Spartaco Gippoliti, Rome, Italy
2008-10-15 Babar:• Spartaco Gippoliti, Rome, Italy
2008-08-28 Roma:• 
Elephants and Egotists by Patricia Sumerling
2008-02-24 Remo:• 
Elephants and Egotists by Patricia Sumerling
2008-02-24 Zuma:• 
Elephants and Egotists by Patricia Sumerling


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