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Hans

Houston Zoo · United States

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Hans, Nellie and keeper Tom Baylor

Record completeness

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Life history

Born: 1916
Death reason: unknown:
Age (est.): ~63 years
Origin: Wild-caught
Arrived: 1925-08-05

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Houston Zoo

United States · Zoo

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Transfer history

1925-08-05
Houston Zoo
from Ellis Stanley Joseph menagerie

Sources

Ryan Easley, USA
"With the Zoos," The Billboard Vol 56 No 13, Page 57, 1944-03-25

Original record on elephant.se Back to database

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