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Gunda — Bronx Zoo | mahoot

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Gunda

Bronx Zoo · United States

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Gunda (left) probably in 1905 or 1906

Record completeness

10 of 15 key fields populated

67%

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Life history

Born: 1897
Birth place: in Assam unspecified forest
Death reason: euthanised: shot, aggressive
Age (est.): ~18 years
Origin: Wild-caught
Arrived: 1904-07-02

At this facility

Bronx Zoo

United States · Zoo

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Transfer history

1904-07-02
Bronx Zoo
from Carl Hagenbecks Tierpark (Stellingen)
Firma Carl Hagenbeck
from Firma Carl Hagenbeck
1903-00-00
Sonepur Fair
from Sonepur Fair
Assam unspecified forest
from Assam unspecified forest

Sources

Elephants and Egotists by Patricia Sumerling
Richard Chiger
Chang Reynolds
60 years of chains still

Original record on elephant.se Back to database

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