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The Sri Lankan government gifted him to then-President of Pakistan, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, when Kaavan was one year old. [7] The elephant was kept at the Islamabad Zoo and remained as the only Asian elephant living in Pakistan. [3] [8] An elephant named Saheli was brought from Bangladesh in 1990 as Kaavan's partner until her death in 2012. [1]
The elephant is known for his raids on local shops for rice and causing damage in Chinnakanal area of Munnar and is rumoured to have killed ten people and injured many. [2] The name Arikomban is a combination of the Malayalam words ari, meaning rice, and komban, meaning tusker. [3] Arikomban is estimated to be born in the late 1980s.
An African Elephant named Madhubala was finally reunited with her sisters after 15 years. Madhubala experienced poor conditions in captivity at Karachi Zoo in Pakistan.After the death of her other ...
Mangalamkunnu Karnan (born 1957–1961 – died 28 January 2021) was an elephant owned by the family which owns the largest number of captive elephants in Kerala, only behind Guruvayur devaswom. [1]
The iconic singer and actress is celebrating the departure of Kaavan, who will soon leave a zoo for better conditions after years of lobbying by animal rights activists.
The zoo's only elephant, Suzi, which had been resident at the zoo since 1988 died in May, 2017, [11] from several illnesses, leaving the zoo without an elephant. The zoo's male hippo, Raja, was brought to the zoo in 1974 and at the time of his death, in October, 2015, was the oldest resident of the zoo, at 51. [ 12 ]
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The Koh Yao centre offers "elephant care" packages which let tourists make food for and feed the animals, as well as shower and walk with them. These packages cost between 1,900 baht ($55; £44 ...