Samba (Chamba, Tjampa)
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Harry Malter familypark in Belgium

Biography

☨ ♀ Samba (Chamba, Tjampa)
Museum locations
Present / last location:	Ghent Museum of Zoology, in Netherlands

Date of arrival

2001-00-00	Ghent Museum of Zoology, Gent, Netherlands

Identification


Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†2001-05-23
Death reason:	euthanised: arthritis
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Harry Malter familypark, in Belgium

Date of arrival

	Harry Malter familypark
Record history
History of updates	2020-10-04

Latest document update	2020-10-18 06:25:24
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† Samba (Chamba, Tjampa) is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 2001-05-23 at Harry Malter familypark, in Belgium, . Official death reason described as arthritis.

Museum locationThe Museum specimen remains of this animal is within the collection at Ghent Museum of Zoology, in Gent, Netherlands, since 2001-00-00.

Origin

Samba (Chamba, Tjampa) was born wild .

Comments / pictures

Her Skeleton is in the Museum voor Dierkunde van de Universiteit Gent.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Samba (Chamba, Tjampa), Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Harry Malter familypark in Belgium. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 23 May 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=3489. (archived at the Wayback machine)