Tembo (Tempo)
African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) at
Kolmarden Zoo in Sweden

Biography

☨ ♀ Tembo (Tempo)

Identification

Local id Number	3435

Description
Species:	African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana)
Sex and age:	Female ♀ 2 years old
Origin
Born:	* 1972 wild
Birth place:	in Africa unspecified location
Capture:	1973
Death
Dead:	†1974-11-27
Death reason:	unknown: meningitis?
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Kolmarden Zoo, in Sweden

Date of arrival

1973-04-18	Kolmarden Zoo
Record history
History of updates	2024-11-30: text 2025-03-18: PC

Latest document update	2021-11-20 13:19:49
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† Tembo (Tempo) is a dead Female ♀ African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana), , who died 1974-11-27 at Kolmarden Zoo, in Sweden, . Official death reason described as meningitis?.

Origin

Comments / pictures

Death cause unknown, suspicion: meningitis, because of broken tusk?

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Tembo (Tempo), African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) located at Kolmarden Zoo in Sweden. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 30 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=2861. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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