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Arun — Budapest Zoo | mahoot

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Arun

Budapest Zoo · Hungary

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Life history

Born: 1976
Birth place: in Assam unspecified location
Death reason: anesthesia: tooth infection and misguided anesthesia
Age (est.): ~21 years
Origin: Wild-caught
Arrived: 1979-12-29

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Budapest Zoo

Hungary · Zoo

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Transfer history

1979-12-29
Budapest Zoo
from Port of Calcutta
Kampur unspecified elephant camp
from Kampur unspecified elephant camp

Sources

Elephants and Egotists by Patricia Sumerling
Lillian Berthung, Sweden
Ilycsin László, Zoo Budapest, Hungary
https://zoobudapest.com/ezt-latnod-kell/hirek/155-ev-elefantjai-1

Original record on elephant.se Back to database

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