Veda an Asian elephant at Bannerghatta Biological Park Zoo

Location

Veda is a an elephant with unknown sex, an Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), living in Bannerghatta Biological Park Zoo, in India.

Veda arrived in Bannerghatta Biological Park Zoo 2015-06-20,

In Bannerghatta Biological Park Zoo, Veda lives together with 18 other elephants with records in this database: (detailed list)

1. ♀ Maya
,
2. ♀ Baby born 1953
,
3. ♀ Barkha born 1958
,
4. ♀ Gayathri born 1961
,
5. ♀ Lilly born 1967
,
6. ♂ Vanaraja (Vanaraj) born 1968
,
7. ♀ Munniya born 1973
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8. ♀ Vanitha (Vanita) born 1984-00-00
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9. ♀ Suvarna born 1990
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10. ♀ Veda born 1999-02-02
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11. ♂ Sundar born 1999?
,
12. ♀ Nisarga born 2003-11-22
,
13. ♀ Vanashree born 2007-01-29
,
14. ♀ Rupa (Krupa?) born 2008
,
15. ♂ Gajendra born 2009-08-03
,
16. ⚪ Unnamed born 2011-02-22
,
17. ♂ unknown born 2017-09-22
,
18. ♀ Sudha born 2020-08-17
, (see detailed list).

Origin

Veda was born captive-born 2015-06-20 in Bannerghatta Biological Park Zoo.

Parentage

Parents of Veda are: ♂ (father) and ♀ Suvarna (mother).

Siblings through the mother Suvarna:

1. (F) Shiva
2. (F) Gokula
3. 1984-00-00(F) Vanitha (Vanita)
4. 2007-01-29(F) Vanashree
5. 2009-08-03(M) Gajendra
6. 2017-09-22(M) unknown
7. 2020-08-17(F) Sudha

Pedigree

Sources used for this article is among others:

• http://www.deccanherald.com/content/486787/elephant-calf-hippo-terrapins-add.html
  
• http://www.deccanherald.com/content/486787/elephant-calf-hippo-terrapins-add.html
  
• http://www.deccanherald.com/content/638004/newborn-elephant-spreads-joy-bbp.html
  
  
• Database for Captive Elephants and their Mahouts in Karnataka
  made 2009 by Surendra Varma, Shiela Rao, Suparna Ganguly and Rajendra Hasbhavi, India

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: Bannerghatta Biological Park Zoo
• More elephants from: India
• More elephants that was born: 2015-06-20
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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• elephant-news.com
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• Google Internet search
• Google Books
• elephanttag.org and Asian Elephant Studbook 2003-2005, AZA North America (PDF)
• Asianelephant.net
• Buckles Blog
• circushistory.org
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