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Narmada — Theppakadu Mudumalai Forest Camp (MFC) | mahoot

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Narmada

Theppakadu Mudumalai Forest Camp (MFC) · India

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Life history

Born: 2016
Birth place: in Tiruvannamalai district
Death reason: disease: severe heart attack, bacterial infection, possibly Elephant Elephant TB (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) (Mycobacterium tuberculosis)?
Origin: Wild-caught
Arrived: 2013-08-28

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Theppakadu Mudumalai Forest Camp (MFC)

India · Camp

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Transfer history

2013-08-28
Theppakadu Mudumalai Forest Camp (MFC)
from Tiruvannamalai district

Sources

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/Forest-staff-bid-goodbye-to-camp-elephant-Narmada/article16754294.ece
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/theppakadu-elephant-camp-reopened/article18450433.ece
Database for Captive Elephants and their Mahouts in Tamil Nadumade 2009 by Surendra Varma, N. Kalaivanan, N.S.Manoharan, R. Thirumurugan, S. Thangaraj Panneerslevam and N. Mohanraj, India

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