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Kamala — Nandankanan Zoo | mahoot

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Kamala

Nandankanan Zoo · India

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Life history

Born: 2013-08-01
Death reason: disease: Elephant endotheliotropic herpes virus
Age (est.): ~6 years
Origin: Wild-caught
Arrived: 2013-11-22

At this facility

Nandankanan Zoo

India · Zoo

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Transfer history

2013-11-22
Nandankanan Zoo
from Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT)

Sources

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/2-month-old-Kamala-misses-zoo-treat/articleshow/23548696.cms
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/herpes-virus-claims-another-elephant-life-at-odishas-zoo/article29463361.ece

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