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Topsy — Rio de Janeiro Zoo (Vila Isabel) | mahoot

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Rio de Janeiro Zoo (Vila Isabel) · Brazil

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Record completeness

5 of 15 key fields populated

33%

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Life history

Death reason: food related: swallowing a sheet

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Rio de Janeiro Zoo (Vila Isabel)

Brazil · Zoo

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Transfer history

Rio de Janeiro Zoo (Vila Isabel)

Sources

Enzo Henriques, Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
http://memoria.bn.br/DocReader/DocReader.aspx?bib=258822&pesq=zool%C3%B3gico&hf=memoria.bn.br&pagfis=31435
http://memoria.bn.br/DocReader/DocReader.aspx?bib=214957&Pesq=zool%c3%b3gico&pagfis=17816
http://memoria.bn.br/DocReader/DocReader.aspx?bib=348970_04&Pesq=topsy%20elefante&pagfis=4218

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Data from elephant.se (Dan A. J. Koehl), CC BY 4.0. Reformatted for search.