Are African forest elephants completely gone from zoos?

interesting posts, i am now working with Abidjan zoo to improve the zoo, and also look after the female elephant. the zoo is already improving, and there is an abandoned purpose built 1.5 ha enclosure , with pool, concrete rubbing posts, holding area etc, being renovated to move the elephant back into. there also may be more coming in the future, from areas where they are being threatened from farmers because of crop damage. they have bred them at the zoo before and CAN was captive bred. we hope to have a website and webcams running soon where you can watch progress
 
Animalchap said:
interesting posts, i am now working with Abidjan zoo to improve the zoo, and also look after the female elephant. the zoo is already improving, and there is an abandoned purpose built 1.5 ha enclosure , with pool, concrete rubbing posts, holding area etc, being renovated to move the elephant back into. there also may be more coming in the future, from areas where they are being threatened from farmers because of crop damage. they have bred them at the zoo before and CAN was captive bred. we hope to have a website and webcams running soon where you can watch progress
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Thank you for answering my questions! I have several more if you dont mind..
-Are you managing CAN in protected contact or free contact?
-Are you hoping to breed CAN in the near future (which Im assuming would require bringing in a male)?
-Do you have any photographs of the enclosure you're hoping to move her to?
 
hi
training - protected contact , but it will take sometime, and not be in this situation fully until new enclosure, because it takes time to change the way the keepers work, and how long they have operated before. plus the existing enclosure is very poor and it is impossible to manage protected at the moment. in the future will breed if a male becomes available, but may just have her mixed with some other species while we wait. the new enclosure is going to be great, i have some photos that will post in the next day or two - because of the climate is so good, and the size of the enclosure i think it will sustain natuaral vegetation very well, making it look very natural all the time
 
(0.1) Mimi, Yamaguchi Safari land, died last May.
Bringing the captive world total of Loxodonta Cyclotis to:

1.0 Yamaguchi Safari land
Dai, male, approx 15 yrs, origin: Burkina Faso

0.1 Hiroshima
Mai, female, approx 15 yrs, origin: Burkina Faso

1.2 Sousse Friguia
Achtaum, male, approx 16 yrs, origin: Togo
Kani, female, approx 19 yrs, origin: Togo
Mina, female, approx 13 yrs, origin: Togo

1.1 Kuwait
Male and female, unknown age, and unknown origin

0.1 Abidjan
Can, captive born female, 21 yrs

0.1 S.O.S. Elephants of Chad
Savu, orphaned female, approx. 4 yrs
 
Forest elephants Bronx Zoo

The picture you posted shows a picture of Zangelima (Barney) and Doruma (Pinky), the two forest elephants who were brought to the Bronx Zoo in 1946. Zangelima was shot in 1952 for "bad temper" and Doruma died in 1970.
 
loxodontaafrica said:
(0.1) Mimi, Yamaguchi Safari land, died last May.
Bringing the captive world total of Loxodonta Cyclotis to:

1.0 Yamaguchi Safari land
Dai, male, approx 15 yrs, origin: Burkina Faso

0.1 Hiroshima
Mai, female, approx 15 yrs, origin: Burkina Faso

1.2 Sousse Friguia
Achtaum, male, approx 16 yrs, origin: Togo
Kani, female, approx 19 yrs, origin: Togo
Mina, female, approx 13 yrs, origin: Togo

1.1 Kuwait
Male and female, unknown age, and unknown origin

0.1 Abidjan
Can, captive born female, 21 yrs

0.1 S.O.S. Elephants of Chad
Savu, orphaned female, approx. 4 yrs
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It would be good to know that somebody, somewhere, made an effort to manage these animals to get the species established in captivity. The role of zoos in West and Central Africa needs to be encouraged and developed, and as a flagship species the Forest Elephant is hard to beat.
 
IanRRobinson said:
It would be good to know that somebody, somewhere, made an effort to manage these animals to get the species established in captivity. The role of zoos in West and Central Africa needs to be encouraged and developed, and as a flagship species the Forest Elephant is hard to beat.
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Especially when you consider there are no concrete figures for the wild population. The sooner a global captive breeding effort is established the better.
 
DavidBrown said:
Possibly this article was written before the forest elephants arrived in Japan? Or could be that they just were not widely known to Euro-American audience?

This article needs to be supplemented with the history of cyclotis in Japan (and other Asian zoos if there were any)....oh yeah, and African zoos too.
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Some one knows the country of origin of Japanese forest elephants?
 
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Abidjan zoo from 2014
 
BennettL said:
To me this is an African elephant not an African forest elephant.

BennettL
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Reviving and old thread - To me the elephant in that video shows the rounded ear shape and thin tusks that give an appearance of splaying wide to the sides of the trunk (ignoring the damaged one), that is indicative of a forest elephant.
 
Some of these elephants look like forest elephants but have ear shapes that are not exactly correct or a bit more like bush elephants. I have a question for those of you who are into studying the elephants at the Bronx Zoo. I have been trying to find a picture of an elephant, an Asian elephant, that was at the zoo from 1930 to 1940. His name was Runga. He was shot when he was 13. He is mentioned in some publications, but there do not seem to be any photos of him anywhere, including the zoo. Maybe the zoo did not want people to know that they killed another male elephant and they pretend he never existed. I am being facetious, of course, but there must be a photo of Runga in existence. I see some people on this thread who seem to know about the elephants in the Bronx Zoo. I hope one of you can help me in my quest.
 
The news that a Male from Akiyoshidai Safari park has beeb sent to Asa zoo in Japan to be paired with their female hasn't been mantioned here yet so I would like to bring that up.
 
Dallaspachyderm said:
JAPAN!

Yamaguchi Safariland

-Dai (male) unknown (2001?)-present
[born 1999]

-Mimi (female) unknown (2001?)-present
[born 1999]

Hiroshima Asa

-May (female) 2001-present
[born 1999]

Tokuyama Municipal

-Unknown (female) unknown (2001?)-present
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Also Asahiyama Zoo also had a forest elephant named Nana which died at 2006 she was brought to the zoo at 1980.
 
There were forest elephants in the Bronx Zoo. The first one came in in 1905, his name was Congo. Then another in 1932, Tiny. Two in 1946, Zangelima and Doruma. There was also a male forest elephant in the National Zoo named Dzimbo. There was also one in Cambridge Canada, Samson.
 
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