Toto
African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) at
Rome Zoo in Italy

Biography

☨ ♂ Toto


Alternative name:	Jumbo
Museum locations
Present / last location:	Museo Civico di Zoologia, in Italy

Date of arrival

1939-00-00	Museo Civico di Zoologia, Roma, Italy

Identification

Museum accession number	MCZR OS.1311

Description
Species:	African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana)
Sex and age:	Male ♂

People killed:	2
Origin
Born:	* 1907? wild(unconfirmed claimed birth date)
Birth place:	in Tanzania unspecified location
Capture:	1908 by Hans Schomburgk expedition
Imported:	1910 by Firma Carl Hagenbeck
Death
Dead:	†1939
Death reason:	disease:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Rome Zoo, in Italy

Date of arrival

1910-11-00	Rome Zoo from Carl Hagenbecks Tierpark (Stellingen)

1910-00-00	Carl Hagenbecks Tierpark (Stellingen) from Firma Carl Hagenbeck

1910-00-00	Firma Carl Hagenbeck from Christoph Schulz

1908-04-21	Christoph Schulz from Hans Schomburgk 2

Record history
History of updates	2025-03-18:

Latest document update	2025-03-26 09:48:46
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† Toto is a dead Male ♂ African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana), , who died 1939 at Rome Zoo, in Italy, .

Museum locationThe Museum specimen remains of this animal is within the collection at Museo Civico di Zoologia, in Roma, Italy, since 1939-00-00.

Origin

Toto was born wild at Tanzania unspecified location, captured 1908 . and imported 1910 by Firma Carl Hagenbeck

Comments / pictures

1908-04-21: Captured by Hans Schomburgk in German Tanganyika, after he shot the mother. Schomburgk bottle fed him with milk the first six months, named him Jumbo, and and then walked with him to Morogoro, from where they travelled with train to Dar Es Salaam. He was later sold in 1910 to Christoph Schulz, Carl Hagenbecks agent, who sold him to Firma Carl Hagenbeck, and had him transported to Hamburg in Germany.
1910 November: Arrived Rome Zoo from German Tanganyika.
1922: During a veterinary session for a shoulder problem, he killed his Veterinarian Dr. Canezza.
1928-07-02: Killed the elephant keeper Ivo Calavalle
Toto in Rome Zoo Toto with elephant keeper Ivo Calavalle.

1939: Found sudden death in sleeping position, in the spring of 1939.

Skeleton is conserved in the Civic Museum of Zoology.

Totos Skeleton is exhibited at the Museo Civico di Zoologia.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Toto, African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) located at Rome Zoo in Italy. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 18 April 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=3664. (archived at the Wayback machine)