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Lowry Park Zoo in United States
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Lowry Park Zoo
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Description
Lowry Park Zoo, in Tampa, Florida,
United States
.
Living elephants
At the Lowry Park Zoo lives 6 elephants with records in this database: (
detail list
)
♀
Ellie
born 1982
♀
Matjeka
born 1991
♀
Mavi
born 2013-07-29
♀
Mbali
born 1989
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Mpumi (Mpumelelo)
born 2012-12-23
♂
Sdudla
born 1990
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Lowry Park has a 5.6 acre safari park exhibit with 250,000 gallon watering hole. The new exhibit opened May 2004.
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.
References for records about Lowry Park Zoo
Recommended Citation
Koehl, Dan (2024). Lowry Park Zoo, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at
https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=390
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Sources used for this article is among others:
Ryan Easley, USA
http://www.tampabay.com/news/baby-elephant-born-at-lowry-park-zoo/1267920
http://www.consumerfreedom.com/pressRelease_detail.cfm/release/252
http://montgomeryal.gov/depts/zoo.aspx
http://www.al.com/news/independent/index.ssf?/base/news/119546733589670.xml&coll=4
http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071111/APN/711110779&template=apart
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/1106/374824.html
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2013-01-09
Baby elephant born at lowry park zoo to mother mbali - Elephant News
Attorney, plaintiffs in circus trial argued that elephants are better off dead than in captivity. same animal activists now claim to be interested in elephants’ welfare - Elephant News
Female elephant calf in montgomery zoo officially named - Elephant News
Female elephant calf born at montgomery zoo - Elephant News
Newborn elephant exciting arrival for montgomery zoo - Elephant News
National zoo's only giraffe leaves for florida - Elephant News
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