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Old 21-05-2008
I don´t know exact his weight oder hight, but i´ll say hes normal

Here you can see hin on a pic i took.
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It would be real nice to have a gallery of all the TOP bulls in Europe and the USA, there would be some really impressive bulls out there in Zooland
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And these elephants are not in "great shape", because if you look properly on the pics posted by Animal, you can clearly see that some of them have really bad foot problems. And Joe´s front legs are both badly damaged, one leg is completely stiff and the other one is nearly stiff.
Sorry Yassa, I can't see that at all. Joe's front nails have been that distinctive for decades. As a matter of fact his nails are one way that elephant people use to positively identify him in uncaptioned photos - they are so distinctive.
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Sorry Yassa, I can't see that at all. Joe's front nails have been that distinctive for decades. As a matter of fact his nails are one way that elephant people use to positively identify him in uncaptioned photos - they are so distinctive.
His skin tells a great sign of health as well,
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It would be real nice to have a gallery of all the TOP bulls in Europe and the USA, there would be some really impressive bulls out there in Zooland
Do you think should we work on one as well as the list MARK? I think it will be great, i don't have any photos of my own of USA and europe bulls so i won't be much help.
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We do have an elephant gallery, maybe members could add photos of the large Asian bulls on there with a caption under the pic with any details
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Guys can we also inculde bulls in asian zoos?

Chengdu zoo's elephant bull apparently on a few websites is considered the largest bull in captivity (zoo) in asia, i have no idea of his name though. He could have a very strong chance gainst the bulls in Europe.
Would anyone have an idea of the size of Europe's oldest bull Chieng Mai?
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oh, and Untbwe do you have any pics of Alexander in Amersfoort?
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Yes, I will place them later...
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I added some photos of Alexander in the gallery / elephants
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Guys can we also inculde bulls in asian zoos?

Yes that would be Ok if anyone has them
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I added some photos of Alexander in the gallery / elephants
Thanks, a lot Untbwe.
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About weights. There are only a few zoos who has scales strong enough for an elephant. Therefore most zoos are guessing the weight of an elephant. We only know for sure that Radza is 7.200 kilograms because when he was lifted in his box into the exhibit the cranedriver could see how heavy the animal+box was. While lifting the empty box back on the truck he could see how heavy this was. So the elephant minus box was 7.200 kg.

About height. This is easier of course but by far not all zoos are telling the public how tall their elephants are. And if they have an elephant of big seize they often adding some extra centimeters to the real height.

I did some readings at German forums and the found following - more or less - facts:

Boy of Kiev Zoo is 3.25 meters.
Colonel Joe of Circus Krone is 3.20 meters.
Bindu of Cologne and Radza of Emmen are 3.15 meters. (Altough some are telling that Bindu is 3.25 m)

Assam of Kharkov who died in 2000 seems to be 3.25 meters.

I think Radza is the heaviest bull with 7.200 kilograms.
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This is Chengdu's bull, here is a photo off Zoo Elephant - Asian Elephants at the Zoological Gardens of the World this is the only one under 97.7 kb that i could upload more you can view on the site.
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Boy sounds like a real tall bull, I have seen a photo of him on an elephant website but his head is not visible because of another (cow) elephant standing in front of him, but from what I can see he appears huge
 
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