Captive Breeding Record

The Oregon Zoo often touts its success breeding captive elephants, but a careful look at the program reveals a less-than-successful effort.

Facts:
No elephant births in 12 years.

Out of 26 captive births, 15 are dead. (2 of 9 surviving calves are in the Ringling Brothers circus).

The whereabouts of 2 calves is unknown.

Of the four breeding bulls, three are dead. Only Packy is still alive. Thonglaw and Hugo died prematurely at the Zoo and Tunga died prematurely at the Hawthorne Corporation, a circus training company that was forced to give up its elephants by US Department of Agriculture due to mistreatment.

Of the eight females who gave birth, half are dead. Pet, Hanako, Rose-Tu and Hanako are still alive. Pet and Rose-Tu remain at Oregon Zoo, Hanako is held at Pt. Defiance Zoo and Effie at Busch Gardens. Those who died are Rosy (43), Belle (45), Tuy Hoa (29), Me-Tuy (34).

Captive Born Elephants Sitll Living (9)

Packy	b. 1962	Oregon Zoo
Hanako	b. 1963	Point Defiance Zoo
Cora	b. 1965	Ringling Bros. Circus
Khun Chom	b. 1978	Dickerson Park Zoo
Sabu	b. 1982	Ringling Bros. Circus
Sung Surin	b. 1982	Oregon Zoo
Rama	b. 1983	Oregon Zoo
Prince	b. 1987	Ringling Bros. Circus
Rose Tu	b. 1994	Oregon Zoo

Dead (Survived past infancy) (8)

Me Tu	b. 1962/d. 1996	Age 34	Oregon Zoo
Dino	b. 1963/d. 1977	Age 14	Spokane
Teak	b. 1966/d. 1978	Age 12	Berry M. (private)
Tina	b. 1970/d. 2004	Age 34	The Elephant Sanctuary (sent by Vancouver Zoo; already suffering from terrible foot problems)
McClane	b. 1972/d.1983	Age 11	Circus Vargas
Stoney	b. 1972/d.1983	Age 22	Bartow
Emma	b. 1973/d. 1986	Age 13	Busch Tampa
Thongtrii	b. 1979/d. 1993	Age 14	Fresno (zoo)

DEAD: (Calves that did not survive more than 2 months) (7)

Droopy	b. 9/29/68, d. 10/4/68	Oregon Zoo
Unnamed	b. 3/25/70, d. 3/25/70	Oregon Zoo
Unnamed	b. 8/4/73, d. 8/7/73	Oregon Zoo
Unnamed	b. 2/7/76, d. 3/5/76	Oregon Zoo
Sumek	b. 3/15/78, d. 4/29/78	Oregon Zoo
Unnamed	b. 10/6/91, d. 10/7/91	Oregon Zoo
Unnamed	b. 8/31/94, d. 8/31/94	Oregon Zoo