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At the time of their arrival, the trio made up the largest group of Sri Lankan elephants in North America. [1] While residing at Calgary Zoo, she gave birth to three calves, two of which survived. [8] Calvin, [a] a male, was born in June 1986 and weighed 293 lb (133 kg), [9] while Maharani, a female, was born in 1990 [5] and weighed 150 kg (330 ...
Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's elephant whose name is the origin of the word jumbo (meaning "very large" or "oversized"). The African elephant was given the name Jumbo by zookeepers at the London Zoo. The name was most likely derived from the Swahili word jumbe meaning "chief". Lallah Rookh, elephant with Dan Rice's circus.
In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners . [ 1 ]
African elephants use names to call each other, study suggests. Amarachi Orie, CNN. June 10, 2024 at 10:09 PM ... a female from the Native Americans family responds to her calf’s distress call ...
Jenny (elephant), a female elephant in the German Army in World War I Jenny (gorilla) , the oldest gorilla in captivity at the time of her death at age 55 Jenny (orangutan) , an orangutan in the London Zoo in the 1830s
Mali was a female Asian elephant (Elephas maximus). [1] Her exact birth date is unknown. [b] She was moved into the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage after her mother died of natural causes. [6] The Sri Lankan government gifted the elephant to then Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos. [7] The elephant was presented at Malacañang Palace. [6]
A female African bush elephant skeleton on display at the Museum of Osteology, Oklahoma City. The first scientific description of the African elephant was written in 1797 by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, who proposed the scientific name Elephas africanus. [3] Loxodonte was proposed as a generic name for the African elephant by Frédéric Cuvier in
[3] [4] As in Mycenaean Greek, Homer used the Greek word to mean ivory, but after the time of Herodotus, it also referred to the animal. [1] The word elephant appears in Middle English as olyfaunt (c. 1300) and was borrowed from Old French oliphant (12th century). [2]