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Balarama — Mathigodu elephant Camp | mahoot

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Balarama

Mathigodu elephant Camp · India

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Balarama

Record completeness

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Identification

Local ID: 7

Life history

Born: 1956
Birth place: in Nagarhole National Park
Death reason: unknown: suspected Elephant Elephant TB (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) (Mycobacterium tuberculosis)
Age (est.): ~67 years
Origin: Wild-caught

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Mathigodu elephant Camp

India · Camp

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Transfer history

Mathigodu elephant Camp
from Murkal elephant camp (Nagarhole)
1987-00-00
Kattepura forest
from Kattepura forest

Sources

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/277200/gajapayana-begins-amid-fanfare.html
Balarama injured by other elephants (Elephant news)
http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/prani/elephants/dasara_elephants.htm
https://www.newskarnataka.com/mysore/newbies-get-ready-to-walk-with-veteran-jumbos-this-dasara
https://www.karnataka.com/mysore/dasara-elephants/
Database for Captive Elephants and their Mahouts in Karnatakamade 2009 by Surendra Varma, Shiela Rao, Suparna Ganguly and Rajendra Hasbhavi, India

Original record on elephant.se Back to database

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