Nanjunda
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Dubare elephant camp (Aanekaadu) in India

Biography

♂ Nanjunda
Nanjunda is very aggressive and Sharath is the mahout who has been assigned to him. This is Sharath’s first taming assignment and first elephant. HTTP code: 415 This image is inline deepink from an external server, inline linking does not directly infringe copyright but can be removed on request.

Identification


Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Male ♂
Management:	Free contact
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:	in Hassan district forest (Karnataka)
Capture:	2020-01-00
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Dubare elephant camp (Aanekaadu), in India

Date of arrival

2020-00-00	Dubare elephant camp (Aanekaadu) from Hassan district forest (Karnataka)

Record history
History of updates	2025-04-17

Latest document update	2021-12-17 14:55:11
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Biography

Nanjunda is a living Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) , located at the Dubare elephant camp (Aanekaadu), in India.

Nanjunda arrived in 2020-00-00 to the Dubare elephant camp (Aanekaadu), relocated from the Hassan district forest (Karnataka), in India.

Social

Nanjunda lives together with 21 other elephants at the Dubare elephant camp (Aanekaadu): (detailed list)

1. ♂ Ajay born 1974
2. ♂ Chandra born 1969
3. ♂ Dhananjaya
4. ♂ Ganapa born 1991
5. ♂ Ganesha born 2010
6. ♂ Gopi born 1982
7. ♂ Harsha born 1976
8. ⚪ Indra born 1977
9. ♂ Karthik born 2014?
10. ♀ Kaveri born 1978
11. ♂ Kusha born 1994?
12. ♂ Laxman (Lakshmana)
13. ♀ Moyra (Moira) born 1988
14. ♀ Mukambika born 1979
15. ⚪ Parasu Rama (Parashuram) born 2005
16. ♂ Ranjan born 2001
17. ♂ Shivu born 2011-03-00
18. ♂ Thirtarama (Theertharam)
19. ⚪ unknown
20. ⚪ unknown born 2017
21. ⚪ unknown born 2014-07-00

Origin

Nanjunda was born wild at Hassan district forest (Karnataka), captured 2020-01-00 .

Comments / pictures

At almost 12 Feet in height, Nanjunda is a huge elephant. He was captured in Hassan a month before this photograph was taken, after two people who came into contact with him died while he was raiding some agricultural fields for food. His frequent visits to the fields endangered the lives of many people around the area. The forest department decided to tranquillise him and handed him over to the mahouts at the Dubare Elephant Camp.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Nanjunda, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Dubare elephant camp (Aanekaadu) in India. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 22 April 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=10652. (archived at the Wayback machine)