African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana)
Loisaba at Tsavo National Park

† Loisaba is a dead sick Female ♀ African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana), , who died at Tsavo National Park, in Kenya, from disease 2011-06-28. Official death reason described as pneumonia indicating Elephant Elephant TB (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) or Cancer. (see detailed list).

Origin

Loisaba was born wild 1998-01-00, captured at Loisaba/Laikipia district .

The Postmortem revealed that 80% of both lungs had been rendered dysfunctional by nodular whitish material indicating either Tuberculosis or Cancer

Sources used for this article is among others:

• https://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/updates/updates.asp?ID=345


• Loisaba on Elephant Orphan Profiles, at sheldrickwildlifetrust.org, website for The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust

Internal relevant links

• Numbered list of elephant orphans rescued by The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, Nairobi, Kenya, which are included in this database.
• More elephants from: Tsavo National Park
• More elephants from: Kenya
• More elephants that was born: 1998-01-00
• More elephants that died: 2011-06-28
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

External relevant links (Opens in new window)

• Loisaba on Elephant Orphan Profiles, at sheldrickwildlifetrust.org, website for The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust

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