Tim (wild)
African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) at
Amboseli National Park in Kenya

☨ ♂ Tim (wild)
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Alternative name:	Big Tim
Taxidermy location	Nairobi National Museum, Nairobi, Kenya

Identification

AERP family id	TD family
Local id Number	234

Description

Species:	African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana)
Sex and age:	Male ♂ 51 years old
Characteristics:	complete body
Body height:	3.35 meter, 11.0 feet
Origin
Born:	* 1969 wild
Birth place:	in Amboseli National Park

Parents:	♂ x ♀ Trista (wild)
Death
Dead:	†2020-03-04
Death location:	at the foot of the snowcapped peak of Kilimanjaro in Mada area of Amboseli
Death reason:	age: twisted gut
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Amboseli National Park, in Kenya

Date of arrival

1969-00-00	Amboseli National Park
Record history
History of updates	2013-05-19: new record 2018-12-04: stucked in mud 2020-03-02: Dead, relocation to Nairobi National Museum

Latest document update	2021-08-30 15:25:31
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Biography

† Tim (wild) is a dead Male ♂ African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana), , who died 2020-03-04 at Amboseli National Park, in Kenya, . Official death reason described as twisted gut.

Museum locationThe Museum specimen remains of this animal is within the collection at Nairobi National Museum, in Nairobi, Kenya, since 2020-02-00.

Origin

Tim (wild) was born wild 1969 at Amboseli National Park.

Parentage

Parents of Tim (wild) are: ♂ (father) and ♀ Trista (wild) (mother).

Siblings through the mother Trista (wild):

1963 - † 2003-12-00 (F) Tallulah (wild)

Pedigree

**Tim (wild)s ancestral Pedigree:**
P	I	II	III
Tim (wild)	Sire (f): Born:	Sire ff: Born:	Sire fff:
		Sire ff: Born:	Dame ffm:
		Dame fm: Born:	Sire fmf:
		Dame fm: Born:	Dame fmm:
	Dame m: Trista (wild) Born:	Sire mf: Born:	Sire mff:
		Sire mf: Born:	Dame mfm:
		Dame mm: Born:	Sire mmf:
		Dame mm: Born:	Dame mmm:

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TD family group

2018-12-03: stuck in the mud deep in the Kimana swamp. Helped out by rangers.

2020-03-02: One of Africa's last and largest "tuskers", Tim the elephant, died from natural causes after roaming Amboseli National Park for five decades and surviving multiple life-threatening attacks. Post-mortem results show that Tim died from a twisted gut and the only marks on his body were the imprints left by his companion who presumably tried to lift the great “tusker” back on his Feet.

Big Tim's body is being transported to the Kenyan capital Nairobi, where a taxidermist will preserve Tim for display at the national museum

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2023). Tim (wild), African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) located at Amboseli National Park in Kenya. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 1 December 2023 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=13478. (archived at the Wayback machine)