Matjeka
African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) at
Lowry Park Zoo in United States

Biography
♀ Matjeka

Identification

SSP nr537

Description

Species:African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana)
Sex and age:Female ♀ 33 years old
Management:Protected contact
Origin
Born:* 1991 wild
Birth place: in Kruger National Park
Capture: 2003
Imported:2003
Freight:Air cargo, Boeing 747
Offspring
Total: 1 babies

1. Born 2013-07-29 Mavi SSP id: 00
Locations - owners
Present / last location:Lowry Park Zoo, in United States

Date of arrival

2003-08-21Lowry Park Zoo
from Mkhaya Game Reserve

1994-00-00Mkhaya Game Reserve
from Kruger National Park

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Biography


Matjeka is a living Female ♀ African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) , located at the Lowry Park Zoo, in United States.

Matjeka arrived in 2003-08-21 to the Lowry Park Zoo, relocated from the Mkhaya Game Reserve, in Swaziland.


Social

Matjeka lives together with 5 other elephants at the Lowry Park Zoo:

detailed list with arrival dates etc. of the other elephants
  1. Ellie born 1982
  2. Mavi born 2013-07-29
  3. Mbali born 1989
  4. Mpumi (Mpumelelo) born 2012-12-23
  5. Sdudla born 1990

Offspring


  1. (F) 2013-07-29 Mavi SSP id: 00


Origin

Matjeka was born wild 1991 at Kruger National Park, captured 2003 . and imported 2003, Air cargo, Boeing 747


Comments / pictures

Eleven elephants were imported from Mkhaya Game Reserve, one of the two protected areas for elephants in Swaziland. The San Diego Zoological Society and Lowry Park Zoo collaborated on the project to capture and import the eleven wild born elephants for a total sum of one million rand, or approximately US$132,000 ($12,000 per specimen). San Diego received 1.6 elephants and Lowry Park received 2.2, transported over the ocean by a 747 jet. The elephants were all named by Swazi game park rangers in the siSwati language.
Lowry Park's four elephants included the two bulls Msholo (pronounced um-show-lo, meaning “the one who appears from nowhere") and Sdudla (stood-luh, translating to “stout or sturdy.”) The two cows were Matjeka (muh-chay-guh, meaning “skewed tusks) and Mbali (um-bahl-ee, translating to “pretty flower.”)
Before the arrival of the four in August 2003, Lowry Park Zoo acquired Ellie, an older cow from the Knoxville Zoo to help the new Herd acclimate in their new surroundings. In October 2005, she gave birth to the first elephant in the Floridia zoo's history, impregnated via Artificial insemination by a bull from another Florida facility. Three months later in January 2006, Sdudla, was transferred to the Montgomery Zoo to start a third breeding program from the 2003 original imports. There he sired the first two elephant births in the Alabama zoo's history, a female calf born in November 2007 and a stillborn calf in August 2008 which killed the mother. In October 2009, Lowry Park Zoo sent their remaining bull Msholo to the San Diego Wild Animal Park to create a second breeding Group at the institution.


Contradictory records:

The North American Region Studbook for the African Elephant states the 2003 San Diego/Lowry Park imports were born at Kruger National Park and were brought to America from Hlane Royal National Park, the other of the two protected areas for elephants in Swaziland.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2024). Matjeka, African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) located at Lowry Park Zoo in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 19 March 2024 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=4276. (archived at the Wayback machine)


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Categories1991 births | Born in South Africa | Breeding cows | 2003 captures | 2003 imports | Elephants from Lowry Park Zoo | United States | African savanna elephants


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