Deceased elephants at Tulsa Zoo in United States

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This database list 7 dead elephants

Nr Sex Species Name Id Status Arrival locationImport
1+ ♀ EM Tova SSP id: 413 46Born: wild 1969 Dead:2015-11-15, euthanised 2015-09-28 Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Center for Elephant Conservation
2+ ♂ EM Maverick SSP id: 262 7Born: captive-born 1986-10-05
Sneezy x Tooma
Dead:1993-11-26 (7 years after arrival), disease Elephant endotheliotropic herpes virus		1986-10-05
3+ ♀ EM unknown SSP id: T2075 2Born: wild 1972 Dead:1974-11-01, unknown 1974-04-16 Charles P Chase Company Inc
4+ ♂ EM George SSP id: 594 9Born: wild 1968 Dead:1977-05-02 (5 years after arrival), disease internal bleeding1972-09-27 The Ranch Zoo
5+ ♀ EM Tooma SSP id: 241 21Born: wild 1966 Dead:1987-02-26 (19 years after arrival), unknown 1968-11-21
6+ ♀ EM Dorothy SSP id: 700 21Born: unknown Dead:1960?, unknown 1959-00-00 Carson & Barnes Circus
7+ ♀ EM Gunda SSP id: 239 67Born: wild 1950 Dead:2017-01-23 (63 years after arrival), euthanised 1954-11-16

Source for the list of elephants deceased at Tulsa Zoo

Reference list

Facts about Deceased elephants at Tulsa Zoo in United States, Elephant Encyclopedia, Koehl, D. (2026), available online retrieved 15 March 2026 at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=335 (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)
2018-01-23 Gunda:• http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/local/tulsa-zoo-announces-death-of-gunda-the-elephant/article_8d84ab0a-cc07-57b5-9a0d-cfbf560c03fe.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share
•  Tulsa Zoss “First Fifty Years” book, 1978
2016-01-05 Dorothy:• 
Bob Cline, Cheraw, South Carolina, United States. Autor of the book Americas elephants
•  http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2008/07/james-m-cole-elephants-1-from-dick.html
•  http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2011/04/1950-elephants-9.html
2015-12-30 Tova:• http://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/tulsa-zoos-tova-the-elephant-dies-sunday-morning-after-rapid-decline-in-health
• 
Elephants and Egotists by Patricia Sumerling
• Ryan Easley, USA
2011-03-26 George:• Historical news articles on public display in the Tulsa Zoo elephant building
2009-10-29 Maverick:• http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=071216_1_A27_spanc20728


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