List of Individual Elephants - P - Z

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• Packy (1962— ), resident of Oregon Zoo (formerly Washington Park Zoo, originally Portland Zoo) in Portland, Oregon. First Asian elephant born in the Western Hemisphere in 44 years. Now the patriarch of the zoo's herd and has sired seven offspring (although four have died).
• Elefante Pino, (12/15/1981-present) Cuba's most famous elephant. Was housed in the Camaguey zoo since in captivity. Pino is best known for it's love affair with a goat that entered its enclosure from a neighboring exhibit.
• Queenie (elephant) (—1944), gave rides for children at Melbourne Zoo for 40 years.
• Queenie (waterskiing elephant) (1952—2011), noted in the late 1950s and early 1960s for waterskiing for entertainment.
• Raja, elephant who carried the holiest Buddhist shrine in Kandy, Sri Lanka
• Renee, Toledo Zoo's master elephant artist; received formal art training in 1995
• Rogue elephant of Aberdare Forest, a ferocious bull elephant killed by J. A. Hunter
• Ruby, (1973–1998), elephant artist, resided at the Phoenix Zoo; at least one painting by her was sold for $100,000
• Salt and Sauce, considered the most famous British elephants of their era and mentioned in several circus books
• Sissy, an elephant at the El Paso Zoo. In 1999, a videotape showed trainers beating Sissy. After a long public debate, it was determined that Sissy would be sent to an Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee.
• Suleiman the elephant, presented in 1551 to Maximilian II, the Holy Roman Emperor, by John III, the King of Portugal, and named after the Ottoman Sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent
• Surapa, Buffalo Zoo's abstract elephant artist
• Surus, see Hannibal's elephants
• Tarra, first elephant to retire at the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee
• Timur, first elephant to be photographed in the wild (May 6, 1896)
• Topsy the Elephant, circus elephant on Coney Island. She was killed by electrocution after killing three people within three years. Thomas Edison suggested the method of execution and filmed the result.
• Tuffi, a young female elephant who fell from Wuppertal's suspended monorail into the river Wupper on July 21, 1950 (and survived the fall)
• Tusko, billed as the meanest elephant
• Tyke, a circus elephant who on August 20, 1994 in Honolulu, Hawaii, killed her trainer Allen Campbell and gored her groom Dallas Beckwith, causing severe injuries during a Circus International performance before hundreds of horrified spectators. Tyke then bolted from the arena and ran through downtown streets of Kakaako for more than 30 minutes. Police fired 86 shots at Tyke, who eventually collapsed from the wounds and died.
• Ziggy, an elephant from Brookfield Zoo