Josephine
African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) at
Philadelphia Zoo in United States

Biography

☨ ♀ Josephine
Taxidermy location	Washington National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, United States

Identification

Museum accession number	NMNH USNM 270993
SSP nr	5

Description

Species:	African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis)
Sex and age:	Female ♀
Characteristics:	skull, skeleton, nerve stored in a jar of alcohol
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†1943-03-12
Death reason:	unknown:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Philadelphia Zoo, in United States

Date of arrival

1925-04-04	Philadelphia Zoo from Joseph Shirley

Record history
History of updates	2020-10-01

Latest document update	2021-07-28 07:00:31
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† Josephine is a dead Female ♀ African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis), , who died 1943-03-12 at Philadelphia Zoo, in United States, .

Museum locationThe Museum specimen remains of this animal is within the collection at Washington National Museum of Natural History, in Washington, DC, United States, since 1943-03-12.

Origin

Josephine was born wild .

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2024). Josephine, African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) located at Philadelphia Zoo in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 19 April 2024 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=1459. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Roth, V. Sep 1984 ["Sep 1984"]. How Elephants Grow: Heterochrony and the Calibration of Developmental Stages in Some Living and Fossil Species. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 4 (1)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3d7e1df39-50f2-4451-b0e0-f562d0d45068

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