North American Asian Elephant Population

Unfortunate, but this should be moved to the European thread.

 

After researching the Central and South American population of Asian elephants, I created an inventory of the current population. Since the population was larger than I anticipated, I've decided to create a thread dedicated to the Central and South American population of Asian elephants: Central and South American Asian and African Elephant Population.

 

Houston's 1-year-old Joy was diagnosed with--and has survived--EEHV. This is wonderful, especially after the sobering news that the virus killed two young Africans in Indianapolis, confirming that both species are susceptible to the virus. There have been a few other Asian calves to survive EEHV, but far too many who have not.

Joy is the daughter of wild-born Thailand and Shanti, who is the daughter of the late Onyx and NZP's Bozie. My uploads continue to be rejected for being "too large," so this citation is the best I can do:

"Joy to the World: Asian Elephant Completes Successful Treatment for Deadly Disease," Click2Houston, 4/19/19.

 

The Houston Zoo has also welcomed a new Asian Elephant. Tilly (Female)

 

Tilly was born almost a year ago

 

Still cause for celebration, especially since she hasn't contracted EEHV from Joy!

 

1.0 Hugo has been transported from Endangered Ark Foundation to Dickerson Park Zoo.

Dickerson Park Zoo announces arrival of young elephant
Zoo Welcomes New Elephant – Ozarks Independent

On a related note, what's the relationship between Carson & Barnes Circus and the Endagered Ark Foundation? Are they the same facility, being both in Hugo, Oklahoma?

(Also, I just realized this was my 666th post....)

 

Is Indy still alive and well at Dickerson? It's strange that neither article mentions him. At least Moola is alluded to in the second article.

Endangered Ark seems to be the not-for-profit arm of Carson and Barnes Circus. Their elephants are related.

 

Yep. No news articles on his death as far as we know.

 

Is Moola still there? Why would Patience be on exhibit with Hugo and not Moola?

 

Moola is still as the zoo.

 

Why would she be transferred? Are there major changes afoot at Dickerson or in the SSP?

 

I was thinking of the notoriously aggressive Patience when I wrote the above comment. Fixed it.

 

Now I'm even more confused lol. Why would they separate an aggressive Patience from her longtime companion to put her with a young male calf? If she's this feisty, maybe they should put Hugo with Moola and have Patience spend some time with Indy lol. She'll have met her match.

 

EDIT: In truth, Hugo came from Carson & Barnes Circus, which is technically a separate entity as AmikaFan stated.

 

This is the first time Endangered Ark has joined in an SSP decision. Since he was not sent to Denver's bachelor herd, I hope this means there are plans to make it a breeding institution again. Get two young females in there soon to utilize Indy's wild-born genes, and then Hugo will be there to breed any offspring. Just like the plan in OKC. Bring on the girls!

 

I've been adding the three new additions and subtracted Jake and Chuck's departure, and it doesn't up add that they could have the herd of 16 claimed on the news. Two are missing. I found one; in Elephant Enthusiast's initial breakdown on this thread, Kitty is missing. Did she did or move to another facility? There's still one more that must no longer be there because I still count 17:

Nelly. Rose. Piccolo. Emily
Hannah. Luna. Lilly. Maggie
Gigi. Onyx. Natasha. Jenny
Anna May. Sunita. Opal. Johnson
George

What happened to Kitty? And who on this list is no longer there? And why?

 

Kitty died in 2016.

African lion safari has 17 elephants, everyone on this list still lives there.

 

But the articles claim the facility has 16? Sorry to hear about Kitty. She was Hale and hearty in 2015.

 

Well, I don't know why they claim they have 16. Only that they don't count the youngest Sunita? Or maybe some of the two old cows died(Jenny or Maggie) ????