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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.
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 ...
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]
Meet Mare Noi, an elephant taking her first steps to freedom after living in chains for 41 years Image credits: blesele Mare Noi translates as ‘Little Mother.’
Kaavan (Urdu: کاون; born 1985) is a male Asian elephant known as the "world's loneliest elephant" [1] since his partner, 22-year-old Saheli, died in 2012. [2] Kaavan was gifted by the government of Sri Lanka to Pakistan in 1985.
The Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), also known as the Asiatic elephant, is a species of elephant distributed throughout the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, from India in the west to Borneo in the east, and Nepal in the north to Sumatra in the south. Three subspecies are recognised—E. m. maximus, E. m. indicus and E. m. sumatranus.
Babar (Urdu: بابر ), also variously spelled as Baber, [1] Babur, [2] and Babor is a male given name of Pashto, and Persian origin, and a popular male given name in Pakistan. [3] It is generally taken in reference to the Persian babr (Persian: ببر), meaning "tiger". [1]