Skip to content
Main Navigation
  • Deutsch
  • Español
  • Japan

Upali.ch

Elephant encyclopedia

Main Navigation
  • Elephant encyclopedia
  • Author and Designer of the Elephant encyclopedia

Elephants of the zoo Zurich

0.1 Ceyla Born 1971 in Sri Lanka Gender: female Since 1976 in the zoo Zurich Mother of: Komali born: 1984 / died 1995 Panang born: 1989 / lives in: Münchner Tierpark Hellabrunn / D. Upali born: 1994 ...

Elephants in the Zoo Basel

Born: 1976 in Krüger National Park in South Africa Gender: female Since 1984 in the zoo Basel Distinguishing features: clear horizontal wrinkles on her forehead, short tusks. Heri was born in Krüger National Park in South Africa ...

The Elephants of Circus KNIE Switzerland

0.1 Sabu Born: 1984 in Burma Gender: female 01.01.1984 to 01.01.1989 – Wild 01.01.1990 to 01.06.2010 – Circus Knie 01.06.2010 til today – Rapperswill – Knies Kinderzoo 0.1 Delhi  Born: 1968 in Hannover Gender: female 19.03.1968 to 18.05.1969 – ...

Elephant Training and Dressage in the zoo and circus

Why are elephants trained? Unlike domestic animals, which were bred continuously deploying the most suitable animals, elephants in the zoo and in the circus are wild animals – however sweet and nice they are ...

Teeth, second dentition, Tusks

What is special about elephant teeth? In contrast to humans, elephants are lucky enough to undergo further dentition 6 times. Teeth are not, however, exchanged from the bottom to the top (vertically), as in ...

Swimming and diving elephants

Can elephants swim and dive? Like all mammals (except humans and apes, who have to learn how to swim), elephants are very good, untiring swimmers. Elephants move all four legs to swim and are ...

Elephants in Snow and Cold

Do elephants freeze? When the zoo public – being themselves wrapped up in thick coats, gloves and woolly hats – see the elephants in winter in the outside enclosure, they wonder, whether it’s not ...

Elephant skin

Are elephants really “thick skinned”? The expression of elephants being pachyderms is correct only in part. On vulnerable spots like the trunk embouchure, legs and back, skin can in fact be 2.5 to 3 ...

Musth of the elephant bulls

What does the word “musth” mean? An essential part of the problems of the keeping of elephant bulls is the so-called musth. Musth is a word of Persian origin and is translated in the ...

Mice and Elephants

Are elephants really afraid of mice? The rumour that elephants are scared of mice is very persistent and there are whole collections of jokes circulating on this topic. However, these jokes are just as ...

Posts navigation
← Older posts

Recent Comments

  • Haley Rader on Anatomy of the elephants
  • Georges Frei on Musth of the elephant bulls
  • Emily Gray on Musth of the elephant bulls
  • How Much Does a Baby Elephant Weigh? – Exploration Squared on Bigness and weight of the elephants
  • Heather Parsons on Anatomy of the elephants

Recent Posts

  • Wanted: Translator English – French
    April 19, 2019, No Comment

    Wanted: Translator English – French Dear readers of upali.ch It …

  • Elephants of the zoo Zurich
    June 6, 2017, No Comment

    0.1 Ceyla Born 1971 in Sri Lanka Gender: female Since 1976 …

  • Elephants in the Zoo Basel
    June 6, 2017, No Comment

    Born: 1976 in Krüger National Park in South Africa Gender: female Since 1984 …

  • The Elephants of Circus KNIE Switzerland
    June 6, 2017, One Comment

    0.1 Sabu Born: 1984 in Burma Gender: female 01.01.1984 to 01.01.1989 – …

  • Daily Routine for the elephants in zoos and circus
    December 5, 2016, No Comment

    What does a day in the life of a zoo …

Copyright Georges Frei
  • Deutsch
  • Español
  • Japan