NAIROBI: Wildlife officials announced on Tuesday that an elderly elephant thought to be Africa’s largest female tusker has passed away in Kenya.
Dida had legendary long tusks and lived to be between 60 and 65 years old, which is above average for an elephant in the wild.
With pictures of the elephant, Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) posted on Twitter, “She died from natural causes related to old age.”
The country’s vast Tsavo East National Park in the southeast, home to a variety of species, was where the matriarch resided.
Dida, according to KWS, “was a great reservoir of many decades worth of information and a genuinely iconic matriarch of Tsavo,” adding that she was the focus of numerous documentaries.
