The Amboseli elephants comprise one of the few populations of free-living large mammals in the world for which there are complete and accurate life table data.

Life tables are a way of viewing the probabilities of death for elephant males and females at different ages. Here, we provide standard life tables from survival analysis in 5 year bins for all known deaths (n = 407 females, 534 males), and a second table excluding the cases where we know that humans were involved in the death (spearing, poaching, poisoning, or where other human activities caused the death).
Each life table shows out of the number of individuals born, the number that died in each five year period (number of terminal events), and those that survived (proportion surviving) . Individuals whose fate can not be determined are “withdrawn”. The survival analysis also predicts the “hazard” of death for individuals within each age group. The “Std Error” provides a statistical estimate of the precision of the values. The tables presented below are one more example of the unique contribution of ATE to the science base of elephant conservation.