Individual elephants

Motty (11 July – 21 July 1978) was the only proven hybrid between an Asian and an African elephant. The male calf was born in Chester Zoo to Asian mother Sheba and African father Jumbolino. He was named after George Mottershead, who founded the Chester Zoo in 1931.

Asian elephants kept at the Paris zoo

elephant given by al-Malik al-Kamil to Frederick II in 1228