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Guruvayur Vailya Kesavan — Guruvayur Devaswom elephant camp | mahoot

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Guruvayur Vailya Kesavan

Guruvayur Devaswom elephant camp · India

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Story from wildlifesos.org ↗. elephant.se data synced separately; this narrative is not overwritten by weekly sync.

Life history

Birth place: in India unspecified location
Death reason: disease: abscess on its back. Elephant Elephant TB (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) (Mycobacterium tuberculosis)?
Origin: Wild-caught
Arrived: 2000-05-09

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Guruvayur Devaswom elephant camp

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Transfer history

2000-05-09
Guruvayur Devaswom elephant camp
from Nakeri Mana Vasudevan Namboodiri

Sources

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/tusker-valiya-kesavan-of-guruvayur-temple-dies/articleshow/81749070.cms
https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/tusker-guruvayur-valiya-kesavan-dies-at-52-1.5554349
http://www.elephant-news.com/index.php?id=7654

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Data from elephant.se (Dan A. J. Koehl), CC BY 4.0. Reformatted for search.