Tamani
African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) at
Kansas City Zoo in United States

Tamani lives together with 8 other elephants at the Kansas City Zoo: (detailed list)

1. ♀ Christi born 1986
2. ♀ Lady born 1968
3. ♀ Lea born 1978
4. ♀ Lois born 1978
5. ♀ Megan born 1978
6. ♀ Tattoo (Tatu, Tatoo) born 1978
7. ♀ Zoe (Zoey) born 1984
8. ♀ Zuri born 2009-08-10

Tamani was conceived through artificial insemination and born captive-born 2005-10-17 at Lowry Park Zoo.

Siblings through the father Bulwagi:

1. 2002-07-27 -- † 2002-07-27 (M) stillborn
2. 2003-03-21 -- † 2003-03-21 (F) stillborn
3. 2003-04-30(M) Louie
4. 2003-11-24 -- † 2003-04-07 (M) stillborn
5. 2005-05-13 -- † 2005-05-13 (M) Noname
6. 2005-10-18(M) Kedar

Pedigree

"Tamani," which means "hope" in Swahili, was chosen via a Name the Baby contest in which over 600 names were submitted by over 10,000 participants. He was the first elephant birth in the zoo's history.

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Tommy Realing
• "205 Pounds of Cute," SPTimes.com, 2005-10-19
• "African Elephant Calf Progressing at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo," WTSP.com, 2005-10-28
  
• https://www.birminghamzoo.com/animal/african-elephant/
  
• http://www.kansascityzoo.org/node/1728

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Relevant links

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: Kansas City Zoo
• More elephants from: United States
• More elephants that was born: 2005-10-17
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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