† Tonie is a dead Female ♀ African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana), , who died 2009 at Amboseli National Park, in Kenya, .
Tonie was born wild 1967? at Amboseli National Park.
1997: Tonie took over the leadership of the TA family after Tuskless’s death and has held the family together very well. For a while Tulip, Teryl and Tecla stayed in a sad little Group of their own trailing behind the other TAs, but gradually they integrated back into the family. The birth of a new calf to Tonie in May 1998 seemed to help the family coalesce. 2009: Tonie was still leading the remainder of the family and I think all would have been fine for the TAs and all the Amboseli families, but then in 2009 everything changed dramatically when Amboseli was hit by the worst drought in living memory. Tonie was one of the older females who disappeared and we suspect she was Poaching because she had long, thick Tusks. I
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