Hitam
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Smithsonian National Zoological Park Washington in United States

Biography

☨ ♀ Hitam
Museum locations
Present / last location:	Washington National Museum of Natural History, in United States

Date of arrival

1925-06-26	Washington National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, United States

Identification

Museum accession number	NMNH USNM 240939
Local id Number	NZP 2884
SSP nr	484

Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Subspecies:	Elephas maximus sumatranus
Sex and age:	Female ♀ 9 years old
Characteristics:	skull, skeleton
Origin
Born:	* 1916 wild
Birth place:	in Sumatra unspecified location
Death
Dead:	†1925-06-26
Death reason:	shot: sarcoma of the stomach
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Smithsonian National Zoological Park Washington, in United States

Date of arrival

1918-12-10	Smithsonian National Zoological Park Washington from Firma Ruhe

	Firma Ruhe from Sumatra unspecified location

Record history
History of updates	2025-03-16: 2025-03-17: 2025-03-18:

Latest document update	2021-07-28 18:03:03
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† Hitam is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1925-06-26 at Smithsonian National Zoological Park Washington, in United States, . Official death reason described as sarcoma of the stomach.

Museum locationThe Museum specimen remains of this animal is within the collection at Washington National Museum of Natural History, in Washington, DC, United States, since 1925-06-26.

Origin

Comments / pictures

Origin: Sumatra

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Hitam, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Smithsonian National Zoological Park Washington in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 30 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=2567. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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