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Sabu — Hannover Zoo | mahoot

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Sabu

Hannover Zoo · Germany

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Elephant keeper Wolfgang Ramin, Sara and Sabu, Hannover 1971.<br />

Record completeness

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Life history

Born: 1948
Death reason: disease:
Age (est.): ~34 years
Origin: Wild-caught
Arrived: 1962-04-17

At this facility

Hannover Zoo

Germany · Zoo

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Transfer history

1962-04-17
Hannover Zoo
from Firma Ruhe
1960-00-00
Circus Knie
from Circus Knie

Sources

http://www.zooelefant.de/" target='_blank'>Zooelefant.de (Christian Remenyi)
Peter Stolk
Kein Tag ohne Abenteuer. Tiere und ihre Pfleger, by Gerhard Gronefeld

Original record on elephant.se Back to database

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