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Ranchipur — San Diego Zoo | mahoot

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Ranchipur

San Diego Zoo · United States

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Ranchipur. San Diego Wild Animal Park 12/2007. Photo: Amanda Pippin

Record completeness

9 of 15 key fields populated

60%

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Life history

Born: 1966
Death reason: euthanised:
Age (est.): ~50 years
Origin: Wild-caught
Arrived: 2009-04-25

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San Diego Zoo

United States · Zoo

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Transfer history

2009-04-25
San Diego Zoo
from San Diego Zoo Safari Park
1981-05-06
Manizales Zoo
from Manizales Zoo
Elephant Mountain (Morgan Berry)
from Elephant Mountain (Morgan Berry)

Sources

https://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2009/08/from-gary-hill.html
https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1069&context=elephant&fbclid=IwAR1MYliXp7ewuj2OsDqa4Fe2OqtqaF-XmYOfwq-_H3QuVwHGLDWtMcitgiw
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2016/aug/23/san-diego-zoo-elephant-euthanized/
Ryan Easley, USA

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