Old layout of one of the elephant indoor areas in Kolmården

This picture shows the old layout of one of the elephant indoor areas in the elephant house "Kolosseum". Originally this area housed giraffes, but they moved to the safari park for about 15 years ago. The reason was that they could stretch up their heads from their outdoor enclosure and reach the visitors. Kolmården wanted to avoid contact between animals and visitors as they in the beginning of the 2000s had a big outbreak of TBC. They lost all elephants, rhinos and a giraffe in the disease.

After the giraffes were moved this part of the house was empy many years but in the early 10s it was rebuilt to the layout shown in this picture. Since then it houses elephants. In 2015 it was rebuilt again as Kolmården recieved the breeding bull Tonsak from Copenhagen. The wire fence is now replaced by iron bars as this area now is home to Tonsak