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Between the two of them, Fort Worth and Houston have three adult Asian bulls in their facilities: Romeo, Colonel, and Thailand. Who is the largest? I'm guessing that Thai is the heaviest and Romeo is the tallest. Casey used to be in Fort Worth and he looked overweight.

Since there has been a lot of discussion and speculation in the population threads, I've created this thread to do all that here. Please try to post news & related things only in those threads and post any speculation and ideas you have about the populations here. That way the actual population...

Hi, this is my first post here and i was hoping i could ask your opinion about the project i am working on it now. i am landscape architect and i am working on a mixed species enclosure for asian elephants and blackbucks. i was wondering if you have any idea to design a barriers as “escape”...

I will start. I have been scared of Asian elephants. The circus elephants going crazy due to the abuse and killing people just scares me. They have those eyes that stare into my soul, waiting for me to fall into the exhibit and crush me to dust. Maybe it’s the circus incidents and the eyes that...

This thread is to find out how many elephants are currently living in Captivity in Sumatra

I'm not the only one here who has seen the excellent documentary "The Ark" (1993) which followed staff at London Zoo during a period where it was in dire financial straits and almost closed for good. One of the most memorable and heartbreaking sequences is in episode two, where nervous Asian...

This is what happens when a male savannah elephant in Planet Zoo gets it into his head to demolish the fence (which was no longer 100% whole).

This photo shows about half of Planckendael's huge elephant enclosure. This enclosure opened in 2012 and is currently home to 1.5 Asian elephants. Although the enclosure was originally intended for deer as well, now, 9 years later, still no deers have been added to the enclosure.

Heidelberg Zoo 2021 They Keep the only Bull Elephant Herd in Germany, There Names are Tarak, Yadanar, Ludwig and 2021 new arrived Namsai.

Heidelberg Zoo 2021 Heidelberg Zoo keeps the only Bull Elephant Herd in Germany.

Nice architecture, Elephant reserve, June 18

Elephant reserve, June 18

Keeping elephants in zoos or safari parks will be BANNED | Daily Mail Online This popped up on my social media. I’m not a fan of the newspaper of origin, but interesting nether the less.

Hello Zoo Peeps, I'm looking for some very specific information. I have translated a german memoir of circus manager Leo Weste from 1925, in which it describes a letter from animal trainer Thompson (1859-1909) at some point between 1888 and 1908: 'He wrote to me from London that the zoo there...

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Hello, I am feeling curious wondering if there are any mixed enclosures with asian elephants. I am conceptualizing an asian enclosure surrounded by a water moat (elephant proof). Which ungulates can live together with asian elephants? Bateng, gaur, axis deer, blackbuck? What about primate...

What do you guys think about this? Free the Oregon Zoo Elephants: FOZE | Captive Elephant Activists

Another poll in a series for zoochatters to vote for one of two EDGE mammal species. This time decidedly of an elephantine theme and little vs large, the golden rumped sengi / elephant shrew and the Asiatic elephant. Despite the drastic size difference both are mammals within the superorder...

These pictures were I captured from video of Korean News in the 1990s, and the elephants in the picture were elephants that were at the Seoul Zoo. The full video can be seen here. There were five african elephants at the Seoul Zoo, but now they are all dead. In 2004, the last male named 'Rika'...