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Nellie — Sydney Zoo | mahoot

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Nellie

Sydney Zoo · Australia

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Picture courtesy Sonia Coleman

Record completeness

8 of 15 key fields populated

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Life history

Born: 1928
Death reason: accident: fell into the dry moat, broke her back
Arrived: 1948-08-16

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Sydney Zoo

Australia · Zoo

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Transfer history

1948-08-16
Sydney Zoo
from Mitchell Park Zoo
1928-00-00
Jayachamaraja Wadiyar Bahadur
from Jayachamaraja Wadiyar Bahadur

Sources

http://www.fad.co.za/Diary/diary010/diary010.htm

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