Shukuru
African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) at
DSWT Umani Springs (Kibwezi Forest) in Kenya

Shukuru was born wild 2009-09-00 at Tsavo National Park.

Rescued and extracted from a manhole on the Mzima – Mombasa Pipeline into which she had inadvertently fallen.

2017: Angela and Robert were present for the move and made the decision to bring SHUKURU back to Nairobi to try to better get on top of her chronic health issues.

2018; Shukuru was moved to our Umani Springs Reintegration Unit on 16th June 2018 from our Nairobi Nursery, after having been brought back from our Ithumba Unit in order to convalesce and benefit from intensive medical attention

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• https://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/updates/updates.asp?ID=1054
  
• https://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/updates/updates.asp?ID=1096
  
  
• Shukuru on Elephant Orphan Profiles, at sheldrickwildlifetrust.org, website for The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust

Relevant links

Internal relevant links

• Numbered list of elephant orphans rescued by The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, Nairobi, Kenya, which are included in this database.
• More elephants from: DSWT Umani Springs (Kibwezi Forest)
• More elephants from: Kenya
• More elephants that was born: 2009-09-00
• More elephants that died: 2021-11-29
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

External relevant links (Opens in new window)

• Shukuru on Elephant Orphan Profiles, at sheldrickwildlifetrust.org, website for The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust

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