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Portland Zoo (Metro Washington Park Zoo) in United States


Portland Zoo (Metro Washington Park Zoo)
Photo by: Michael Durham © Oregon Zoo
Photo by: Michael Durham © Oregon Zoo
Typezoo
Owner
Founded1887
First elephant arrived1953
Address 4001 SW Canyon Rd.
Zip-code 97221-9704
Place Portland, Oregon
Country United States
Website Website
Directors: Gene Leo (director)
-1975: Jack Marks (director)
-2014: Kim Smith (director)
1975: Warren Iliff (director)
1998: Tony Vecchio (director)
Key People
Veterinarians: Mitch Finnegan (head veterinarian)
Elephant department
Elephant managementProtected Contact, since
Head keepers
of elephants		 1971-1998: Roger Henneous
(elephant head-keeper)
Elephant keepers 1975-1980: Mike Keele (elephant keeper)
Record history
History of updates2025-02-08: text, latest birth. 2025-03-17:
Latest document update2025-03-17 19:22:25
Description

Portland Zoo (Metro Washington Park Zoo), located at 4001 SW Canyon Rd., in Portland, Oregon, United States , was founded in 1887 and the first elephant arrived in 1953

Portland Zoo (Metro Washington Park Zoo) elephants are managed in Protected Contact, since

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Living elephants

At the Portland Zoo (Metro Washington Park Zoo) lives 6 elephants with records in this database: (detail list)
  1. ♀ Chendra born 1993
  2. ♀ Rose-Tu (twin) born 1994-08-31
  3. ♂ Sam (Samudra) born 2008-08-23
  4. ♂ Samson born 1998-05-04
  5. ♀ Sung-Surin (Shine) born 1982-12-26
  6. ♀ Valentina born 2025-02-01

Comments / picturesThe Oregon Zoo, formerly the Metro Washington Park Zoo, is a zoo two miles west southwest of downtown Portland, Oregon in Portland\'s Washington Park. It is Oregon\'s largest paid attraction, with more than 1.3 million visitors yearly. The Oregon Zoo was founded in 1887, making it the oldest North American zoo west of the Mississippi.

The zoo became world famous in 1962 when the Asian elephant "Packy" was born. He was the first elephant born in the Western Hemisphere in 44 years and is (as of 2006) the largest Asian elephant in the United States at 10.5 ft (3.2 m) tall and 13,500 lbs (6,100 kg). A total of 27 more calves have been born at the Oregon Zoo, including 7 sired by Packy, making it the most successful zoo elephant breeding program in the world.

In November 2009, the zoo received voter approval to start a $20 million elephant home using part of six acres. Voters also agreed to spend $10 million to create an elephant range on as much as 200 acres.

2024-02-04: The Oregon Zoo’s newest baby elephant arrived over the weekend. At 4:29 p.m. Saturday, Rose-Tu gave birth to a calf that appeared to be a healthy girl, weighing in the vicinity of 200 pounds. The birth came after 20 months of Pregnancy. It’s the first live elephant calf born at the zoo in more than a decade — and Rose-Tu’s third. “We couldn’t be happier with how everything is going so far,” said Steve Lefave, who oversees the zoo’s elephant program. The experienced mother most recently gave birth to Lily in 2012, and in 2008, she had her first baby, Samudra. At around 200 pounds, the new baby is actually the smallest of Rose-Tu’s elephant calves (Lily weighed about 300 pounds at birth, and Samudra was 286 pounds), but it was still a healthy size, Lefave said.

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Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2025). Portland Zoo (Metro Washington Park Zoo), Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=187. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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