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

Biography
♀ Ellie
Ellie. Lowry Park Zoo 2008. Photo: © Amanda Pippin
Ellie. Lowry Park Zoo 2008. Photo: © Amanda Pippin

Identification

SSP nr236

Description

Species:African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana)
Sex and age:Female ♀ 42 years old
Body weight: 3295.45 kg, 7250.00 lbs
Management:Protected contact
Origin
Born:* 1982 wild
Birth place:
Capture: 1983
Imported:1984? by International Animal Exchange (Ferndale)
Offspring
Total: 1 babies

1. Born 2005-10-17 Tamani SSP id: 544
Locations - owners
Present / last location:Lowry Park Zoo, in United States

Date of arrival

2003-04-18Lowry Park Zoo
from Knoxville Zoo

1998-08-03Knoxville Zoo
from Gulf Breeze Zoo Northwest Florida

1986-02-18Gulf Breeze Zoo Northwest Florida
from Frank Thompson (Bradenton)

1986-02-18Frank Thompson (Bradenton)
from Baton Rouge Zoo

1984-08-11Baton Rouge Zoo
from International Animal Exchange (Ferndale)

Record history
History of updates2020-10-01

Latest document update2021-09-18 07:25:51
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Biography


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

Ellie arrived in 2003-04-18 to the Lowry Park Zoo, relocated from the Knoxville Zoo, in United States.


Social

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

detailed list with arrival dates etc. of the other elephants
  1. Matjeka born 1991
  2. Mavi born 2013-07-29
  3. Mbali born 1989
  4. Mpumi (Mpumelelo) born 2012-12-23
  5. Sdudla born 1990

Offspring


  1. (M) 2005-10-17 Tamani SSP id: 544


Origin

Ellie was born wild 1982, captured 1983 . and imported 1984? by International Animal Exchange (Ferndale)


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.

When at the Zoo Northwest in Florida Ellie was worked in free contact.
In December 2005, Ellie weighted 7,250 pounds.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2024). Ellie, African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) located at Lowry Park Zoo in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 29 March 2024 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=905. (archived at the Wayback machine)


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