† Joyce (wild) is a dead Female ♀ African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana), , who died 2009-00-00 at Amboseli National Park, in Kenya, . Official death reason described as almost certainly killed by poachers?.
Joyce (wild) was born wild ~1941 at Amboseli National Park.
1975: It was on this November sighting that I photographed another large Adult female in the JA family who had been overlooked before. She was eventually named Joyce. Probably mother to Jared (born apr 1968) Jonathan and Joshua. 1976: In March 1976 I recorded Joyce with a new calf, a male. He survived during much of the drought but he finally succumbed in October when many other calves died as well. 1979: Joyce had a male calf in January 1979. 1990: Joyce and Jill seemed to be trying to make up for the lack of females by giving birth to daughters in 1990. They were eventually named Jamila and Josephine. 1993: The grand, old Matriarch of the JA family, Jezebel, died in November 1993. Joyce took over as Matriarch in 1993. At the time she was estimated to be in her early 50s. DNA evidence indicates that she is probably Jezebel's sister. 1995: Joyce gave birth to a very tall, robust-looking male calf on March 23. (Joy95). After Joy, Joyce became mother to Jamila and Jonathan. 2000: Joyce had given birth to a male in September 2000, but in 2002 there was another tragedy for the JAs. Joyce’s male calf, who had been named Judson, was speared and died in October. He was also speared the year before. 2007: Joyce, who was estimated to be 66 years old in 2007, continued as Matriarch. 2009: Joyce and Jill, died, almost certainly killed by poachers.
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