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Mara (elephant)
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Mara is a female Asian elephant born in captivity in India that spent much of her life in circuses and zoos in Argentina. In May 2020, she was released at Elephant Sanctuary Brazil in Mato Grosso. Life in captivity Mara was born in captivity in India, between 1960 and 1970. She was bought by the German company Tierpark Hagenbeck, and after spending some time in a zoo in Germany, she was sold to a circus in Uruguay, and soon afterwards to the Tejedor family who were in the circus business in Argentina. In 1995, after many years travelling around Argentina with several circuses, she ended up in the Buenos Aires Zoo as a judicial deposit when the last circus she worked in, the Rodas Circus, went bankrupt. and vocalised with another elephant of her species, Rana. Mara weighs 5,500 kg, |
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