Joyce (wild)
African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) at
Amboseli National Park in Kenya

Biography
dead elephant ☨ ♀ Joyce (wild)  dead elephant

Identification

AERP family idJA family

Description

Species:African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana)
Sex and age:Female ♀ about 2009 years old (approximate age)
Origin
Born:* ~1941 wild
Birth place: in Amboseli National Park
Death
Dead: 2009-00-00
Death reason: poached: almost certainly killed by poachers?
Locations - owners
Present / last location:Amboseli National Park, in Kenya

Date of arrival

Amboseli National Park
Record history
History of updates2022-03-13

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† Joyce (wild) is a dead Female ♀ African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana), , who died 2009-00-00 at Amboseli National Park, in Kenya, . Official death reason described as almost certainly killed by poachers?.

Origin

Joyce (wild) was born wild ~1941 at Amboseli National Park.


Comments / pictures

1975: It was on this November sighting that I photographed another large Adult female in the JA family who had been overlooked before. She was eventually named Joyce. Probably mother to Jared (born apr 1968) Jonathan and Joshua.

1976: In March 1976 I recorded Joyce with a new calf, a male. He survived during much of the drought but he
finally succumbed in October when many other calves died as well.

1979: Joyce had a male calf in January 1979.

1990: Joyce and Jill seemed to be trying to make up for the lack of females by giving birth to daughters in 1990. They were eventually named Jamila and Josephine.

1993: The grand, old Matriarch of the JA family, Jezebel, died in November 1993. Joyce took over as Matriarch in 1993. At the time she was estimated to be in her early 50s. DNA evidence indicates that she is probably Jezebel's sister.

1995: Joyce gave birth to a very tall, robust-looking male calf on
March 23. (Joy95). After Joy, Joyce became mother to Jamila and Jonathan.

2000: Joyce had given birth to a male in September 2000, but in 2002 there was another tragedy for the JAs. Joyce’s male calf, who had been named Judson, was speared and died in October. He was also speared the year before.

2007: Joyce, who was estimated to be
66 years old in 2007, continued as Matriarch.

2009: Joyce and Jill, died, almost
certainly killed by poachers.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2024). Joyce (wild), African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) located at Amboseli National Park in Kenya. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 29 March 2024 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=13144. (archived at the Wayback machine)


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Categories2009 deaths | ~194 births | Elephants from Amboseli National Park | Kenya | African savanna elephants


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