Thara
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Guruvayur Devaswom elephant camp in India

Location

Thara is a living Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) , located at the Guruvayur Devaswom elephant camp, in India.

Thara arrived in 1958-00-00 to the Guruvayur Devaswom elephant camp, Thara lives together with 45 other elephants at the Guruvayur Devaswom elephant camp:

1. 1. ♂ Achuthan born ~1973
2. 2. ♂ Akshay Krishnan born 1992?
3. 3. ♂ Appu born ±1975
4. 4. ♂ Balakrishnan born 1983
5. 5. ♂ Balaram
6. 6. ♂ Balu
7. 7. ♂ Chandrasekharan born 1979
8. 8. ♂ Chenthamarakshan
9. 9. ♂ Damodhara born 2002
10. 10. ♀ Devi born 1972
11. 11. ♂ Gokul born 1999
12. 12. ♂ Gopikrishnan (Gopeekrishnan) born 1974
13. 13. ♀ Gouri born 1958
14. 14. ♂ Indrasen born 1979
15. 15. ♂ Junior Kesavan born 1993
16. 16. ♂ Junior Lekshmanan born <1964
17. 17. ♂ Junior Madhavan born 1981
18. 18. ♂ Kannan born 1969
19. 19. ♂ Keerthi born 1997?
20. 20. ♂ Krishnan born 1970
21. 21. ♂ Kuttikrishnan
22. 22. ♂ Lakshmanan
23. 23. ♂ Mukundan born 1987
24. 24. ♂ Murali born 1984
25. 25. ♂ Nandan born 1979
26. 26. ♀ Nandini born <1967
27. 27. ♂ Narayankutty born 1958
28. 28. ♂ Parthan born 1995?
29. 29. ♂ Prakashan born 1969
30. 30. ♂ Radhakrishnan born 1962
31. 31. ♂ Rajasekharan born 1973
32. 32. ♂ Ramu born 1973
33. 33. ♂ Ravikrishnan
34. 34. ♀ Reshmi born <1983
35. 35. ♂ Sankara Narayan born 1980
36. 36. ♂ Sathyanarayanan born 1972
37. 37. ♂ Sidharthan (Siddarthan) born 1986
38. 38. ♂ Sreedharan born 1978
39. 39. ♂ Sreekrishnan born 1999?
40. 40. ♂ Sudeepan born 1977
41. 41. ♀ Umadevi born 1972
42. 42. ♂ Unnikkannan born 1979
43. 43. ♂ Valiya Vishnu
44. 44. ♂ Velayudhan
45. 45. ♂ Vinayakan

Origin

Thara was born unknown 1960.

2022: Tara has been with the Guruvayoor Devasom for the past 64 years.

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• https://assamtribune.com/national/88-yr-old-tara-hogs-limelight-on-world-elephant-day-1433227
• Database for Captive Elephants in Kerala, made 2009 by Surendra Varma, E.K. Easwaran, T.S. Rajeev, Marshal.C.Radhakrishnan, S. R. Sujata and Nibha Namboodiri , India, available online at Database for Captive Elephants in Kerala Retrieved 2018-11-01.
• Districtwise details of Captive Elephants of Kerala by Kerala Forest Department, India

Relevant links

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• More elephants from: Guruvayur Devaswom elephant camp
• More elephants from: India
• More elephants that was born: 1960
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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