Sukiri
African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) at
Fairhope Conservation Center in United States

Sukiri lives together with 3 other elephants at the Fairhope Conservation Center: (detailed list)

1. ♀ Bette born 1982
2. ♂ Jack (Jackson) born 1976
3. ♀ Seeni born 1993

1. 2010-10-20: elephant keeper Nathan Jamieson fatal attack by Sukiri. On his return to Abu, Nathan Jamieson began working again with his elephant, Sukiri. Only a few days after he arrived back he left her untethered, and when he walked a little distance to fetch her chains and manacles, turning his back on her, she followed him in the nodding and plodding way of an elephant on a mission, and knocked him flat, crushing him to death with her huge head. † Nathan Jamieson Died 2010-10-20, Okavango Delta, Maun. On hearing of Nathan’s fate, the Botswana government ordered that Sukiri be destroyed. Michael Lorentz vigorously opposed this, and thus began an imbroglio that ended with Michael quitting Abu for good, Abu resuming under new management, and Sukiri, along with the two elephants that had been orphaned with her, being trucked to Johannesburg and flown in elephantine crates to the United States, where they are now housed together in an exhibit at the Pittsburgh Zoo.

1. (F) 2021-07-18 -- † 2024-02-15 Tsuni

Sukiri was born wild 1993 at Kruger National Park, captured 1993 . and imported 2011

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-joys-and-dangers-of-exploring-africa-on-the-back-of-an-elephant-5558778/

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