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Only the name "Vainayaki" meaning "belonging to Vinayaka/Ganesha" may suggest an association. [10] She also figures in a list of shaktis in the Linga Purana. [3] The Agni Purana (compiled in the 10th century) is the first Purana that lists the shaktis of Ganesha; however, Vainayaki is not one of them, nor are any of them elephant-faced ...
Kamala was born in the wild in Yala National Park, [6] Sri Lanka, around 1975, and was taken care of by the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage [3] after she was orphaned at the age of five months. [3] In 1976, she was sent to the Calgary Zoo in Canada. [7] They had purchased her from the orphanage alongside a bull, Bandara, and another female, Swarna.
Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's elephant whose name is the origin of the word jumbo (meaning "very large" or "oversized"). The African elephant was given the name Jumbo by zookeepers at the London Zoo. The name was most likely derived from the Swahili word jumbe meaning "chief". Lallah Rookh, elephant with Dan Rice's circus.
Mali was a female Asian elephant (Elephas maximus). [1] Her exact birth date is unknown. [b] She was moved into the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage after her mother died of natural causes. [6] The Sri Lankan government gifted the elephant to then Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos. [7] The elephant was presented at Malacañang Palace. [6]
Burma (born 1982) is an Asian elephant at Monarto Safari Park in South Australia. Born in Myanmar (then known as Burma), she lived in New Zealand's Auckland Zoo from 1990 to 2024, with the elephant Kashin until she was euthanised in 2009. From this time she was the only elephant in her enclosure until a female elephant named Anjalee arrived in ...
Gajasura, an elephant demon from Hindu mythology; Gajendra, from the Sanskrit text Gajendra Moksha; Girimekhala, the elephant that carries Mara in Theravada Buddhism; Kasogonagá, a Toba deity described as either an elephant or an anteater. Supratika, a name for several elephants in Hindu mythology; Behemoth, a demon depicted as a round-bellied ...
An elephant leads her calves away from danger in northern Kenya. - George Wittemyer 1️⃣ Elephant names: These gentle giants are seemingly more like humans than we might have realized.
A female African bush elephant skeleton on display at the Museum of Osteology, Oklahoma City. The first scientific description of the African elephant was written in 1797 by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, who proposed the scientific name Elephas africanus. [3] Loxodonte was proposed as a generic name for the African elephant by Frédéric Cuvier in