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Chengalloor Dakshayani (c.1930 – 5 February 2019) was a female Asian elephant owned by Travancore Devaswom Board and kept at the Chenkalloor Mahadeva Temple in Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, India, which at the time of her death on 5 February 2019 was believed to be the oldest elephant in captivity in Asia.
In 2004, Kamala's daughter, Maharani, gave birth to Kamala's grandchild, a female elephant posthumously named Keemaya. [16] Kamala and Maharani rejected her shortly after birth, with Maharani displaying confusion and aggression. The baby was given blood transfusions and antibiotics to help her fight an infection, [17] but she died soon after ...
Lin Wang, Burmese elephant which served with the Chinese Expeditionary Force during the Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and later moved to Taiwan with the Kuomintang army. Lin Wang became a fond childhood memory among many Taiwanese. When he died at 86 years old in 2003, he was (and still is) the longest-living captive elephant.
On Nov. 1, the zoo’s elderly Asian elephant, Kamala, was euthanized. This comes after she was diagnosed […] Asian elephant Kamala dies at Smithsonian’s National Zoo
An elephant named “Kamala” has died at a zoo just days before the presidential election – leading social media users to claim it’s a “bad omen” for Vice President Kamala Harris’s ...
Sad news for animal lovers around the world. Flavia, who earned the title of "saddest elephant in the world" by animal rights activists, died last week after living in Spain's Cordoba Zoo for 43 ...
Wild elephants in Munnar. Elephants found in Kerala, the Indian elephants (Elephas maximus indicus), are one of three recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant.Since 1986, Asian elephants have been listed as endangered by IUCN as the population has declined by at least 50% over the last three generations, estimated to be between 25,600 to 32,750 in the wild.
In a 2010 study the elephant population in the Nilambur reserve was observed at being either 205 or 647 depending on the use of the block count or dung count method respectively. [6] [11] In 2011, the reserve had a total density of 0.1745 elephants per km [6] and as of 2017 the density is 0.25 elephants per km. [12]