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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. She was also known as Gaja Raja ...
Padmanabhan is also known for fetching the highest amount an elephant can fetch for a festival in Kerala at that time. The elephant received ₹2,22,222 to participate in the April 2004 Vallangi festival at Nemmara village. On 26 February 2020, Padmanabhan died of age-related complications at the age of 80. [5]
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
[1] [2] He is one among the few native elephants born in Kerala to have a height of more than 309 cm. [3] Kuttisankaran was born at the Nilambur Forest. [4] After leaving the forest at a very young age, he was offered to the Kongad Thirumandhamkunnu temple in 1969. [5] He has won the titles of Adyan Thampuran, Ibhakula Chakravarti and Gajarajan ...
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 ...
Elephant’s confinement sparked calls for relocation but experts said she lacked skills to survive in wild ‘World’s saddest elephant’ who lived alone in Manila Zoo for more than 40 years ...
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.