Monsoon
African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) at
Samburu National Reserve in Kenya

Location

Monsoon is a living Female ♀ African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) , located at the Samburu National Reserve, in Kenya.

Monsoon arrived to the Samburu National Reserve unknown date, Monsoon lives together with 24 other elephants at the Samburu National Reserve:

1. 3. ♀ Alpin (wild)
2. 4. ♀ Anastasia
3. 5. ♂ Ansel
4. 6. ♀ Bora
5. 7. ♀ Cinnamon (wild)
6. 8. ♀ Hurricane born 2004
7. 9. ♂ Lewis
8. 10. ♀ Luna born 2001
9. 11. ♂ Malasso (wild) born ~1999
10. 12. ♀ Malka
11. 13. ♂ Morgan
12. 14. ♀ Noor (wild) born ~2003
13. 15. ♂ Pilate
14. 16. ♀ Rosalynn (wild) born 1993
15. 17. ♀ Rosewood
16. 18. ♂ Shadrack (wild)
17. 19. ♀ Soutine (wild)
18. 20. ♂ unknown
19. 21. ♂ unknown born 2021-09-01?
20. 22. ♂ unknown born 2009
21. 23. ♀ Unnamed (twin) born 2022-01-00
22. 24. ♂ Unnamed (twin) born 2022-01-00
23. 25. ♀ Wendy
24. 26. ♂ Winston

Offspring

1. (F) 2004 Hurricane
2. (M) 2009 unknown

Origin

Monsoon was born wild at Kenya unspecified location.

Monsoon, the Matriarch of the Storms 2 family, is a resilient leader and a survivor. After being shot five times and losing two daughters during the Poaching crisis of 2009 - 2013, she amazed researchers by giving birth again for the first time in nine years.

Monsoon has one surviving daughter, Hurricane, who was born in 2004, and a son - born in 2009. She recently became a grandmother again after Hurricane gave birth to a son.

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• https://www.savetheelephants.org/blog/?detail=the-great-female-leaders-of-samburu
  
• Orphans of Samburu, Storms 2 Family on on Family histories, at savetheelephants.org, website for The Save The Elephants

Relevant links

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: Samburu National Reserve
• More elephants from: Kenya
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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