Zombie
African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) at
Brookfield Zoo in United States

Biography

☨ ♀ Zombie
Museum locations
Present / last location:	Field Museum of Natural History, in United States

Date of arrival

1943-07-04	Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, United States

Identification

Museum accession number	FMNH 53749
Local id Number	Field #: 218471
SSP nr	8

Description
Species:	African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis)
Sex and age:	Female ♀ 9 years old
Characteristics:	skin,skull,skeleton
Origin
Born:	* 1934 wild
Birth place:	in Congo unspecified forest
Capture:	1934
Death
Dead:	†1943-07-04
Death reason:	unknown:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Brookfield Zoo, in United States

Date of arrival

1939-09-09	Brookfield Zoo from Gangala-na-Bodio Elephant Domestication Center

Record history
History of updates	2009-01-01: New elephant 2025-02-24: Born in Congo

Latest document update	2025-02-24 03:38:47

† Zombie is a dead Female ♀ African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis), , who died 1943-07-04 at Brookfield Zoo, in United States, .

Museum locationThe Museum specimen remains of this animal is within the collection at Field Museum of Natural History, in Chicago, United States, since 1943-07-04.

Origin

Zombie was born wild 1934 at Congo unspecified forest, captured 1934 .

Comments / pictures

Zombie and Zombinie, bought as couple, arrived to the Brookfield Zoo in September 1939 from the elephant training station at Gangala-na-Bodio in the eastern Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of Congo).

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Zombie, African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) located at Brookfield Zoo in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 22 April 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=4494. (archived at the Wayback machine)