Bushimaie elephant
African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) at
Bushimaie Hunting Reserve in Congo

Biography

☨ ♂ Bushimaie elephant
Bushimaie elephant as museum specimen. This image is inline deepink from an external server, inline linking does not directly infringe copyright but can be removed on request.
Museum locations
Present / last location:	Royal Museum for Central Africa, in Belgium

Date of arrival

1958-00-00	Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium

Identification


Description
Species:	African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana)
Sex and age:	Male ♂
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:	in Bushimaie Hunting Reserve
Death
Dead:	†1958
Death location:	Domaine de la chasse de la Bushimaie in South Kasai.
Death reason:	hunted: shot for the 1958 World's Fair.
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Bushimaie Hunting Reserve, in Congo

Date of arrival

	Bushimaie Hunting Reserve
Record history
History of updates	2020-10-07

Latest document update	2021-07-12 14:15:10
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† Bushimaie elephant is a dead Male ♂ African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana), , who died 1958 at Bushimaie Hunting Reserve, in Congo, . Official death reason described as shot for the 1958 World's Fair..

Museum locationThe Museum specimen remains of this animal is within the collection at Royal Museum for Central Africa, in Tervuren, Belgium, since 1958-00-00.

Origin

Bushimaie elephant was born wild at Bushimaie Hunting Reserve.

Comments / pictures

Collected for the 1958 World's Fair.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Bushimaie elephant, African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) located at Bushimaie Hunting Reserve in Congo. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 29 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=6742. (archived at the Wayback machine)