Namanga
African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) at
Naples Fuorigrotta Zoo in Italy

Biography

☨ ♀ Namanga

Identification


Description
Species:	African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis)
Sex and age:	Female ♀, unknown age, unknown age
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:	in Congo unspecified forest
Death
Dead:	†1961-07-04
Death location:	Naples Fuorigrotta Zoo
Death reason:	killed: by Barria 4 July 1961
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Naples Fuorigrotta Zoo, in Italy

Date of arrival

1956-00-00	Naples Fuorigrotta Zoo from Gangala-na-Bodio Elephant Domestication Center

Record history
History of updates	2024-05-25: 2025-03-17:

Latest document update	2025-02-23 12:41:18
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† Namanga is a dead Female ♀ African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis), , who died 1961-07-04 at Naples Fuorigrotta Zoo, in Italy, . Official death reason described as by Barria 4 July 1961.

Origin

Namanga was born wild at Congo unspecified forest.

Comments / pictures

Namanga was killed by Barria 4 July 1961.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Namanga, African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) located at Naples Fuorigrotta Zoo in Italy. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 30 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=16918. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Spartaco Gippoliti
Critical inventory of Loxodonta and Elephas (Mammalia, Proboscidea) cranial remains in the collections of the Museo Civico di Zoologia of Rome, https://shorturl.at/nvxO4

Litterature about Naples Fuorigrotta Zoo

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