| Code | Name | Sex | Age | Age Class | Size Class | Birth Year | Birth Accuracy | Mother | Mother accuracy | Family | Family accuracy | Matriarch |
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| m0205 | Heritage | M | 51 | 5 | large adult | 1973-01-01 | +/- 10 yrs | 1 | 1 | |||
| Death Year | Death Accuracy | DCause | DMeans | DMotive | DReasons | Right tusks | Left tusks | |||||
| 2013-03-31 | 1 wk | illegal | multiple bullets | ivory | chopped out | chopped out | ||||||
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| Collared in Mara Conservancy 2011 was in good health and was moving through the thick forests of the Transmara near Kawai town on the evening of the 31st March when he faced a volley of gunfire from a G3 automatic weapon. The shots were heard in three different locations between 6pm and 6.30pm. The Mara Elephant Project’s Quick Reaction Force got to the carcass first thing the next morning. More than ten bullets were found in Heritage’s right side, and his GPS collar had been cut off and hidden. Tracks were followed and by the end of the day three suspects had been detained. | ||||||||||||
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