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Ndlulamitsi, also known as “Ndula,” is a wild-born female African elephant who has spent over twenty years confined at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, CA. Born around 1990 in Kruger National Park, South Africa, Ndula was transferred to a preserve in Eswatini in 1994 where she roamed freely with other elephants. In 2003, Ndula and 10 other elephants were captured and imported to the United States to live in captivity in US zoos, despite global public outcry and with zoo and Eswatini officials making misleading claims about the elephants needing to be killed otherwise. The elephants were then split up, and Ndula, who was pregnant at the time, was sent to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. She gave birth to her son Vusmusi in 2004.