Lakshmi
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Skanda Vale Temple in United Kingdom

Location

Lakshmi is a living Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) , located at the Skanda Vale Temple, in United Kingdom.

Lakshmi arrived in 2018-10-00 to the Skanda Vale Temple, relocated from the Circus Medrano (Raoul Gibault Cirque Medrano), in France.

1. ♀ Kamala (Camilla, Kamella) born 1966
2. ♀ Valli born 1980

Origin

Lakshmi was born wild 1966 at Asia unspecified location.

1996: Season 1996 in Ringling brothers Blue unit with trainer Graham Thomas Chipperfield

2010: Three-ton Lechmee recently become blind, and couldnt work in the ring. Dr. Christine Lendl travelled from Germany to supervise the operation which was carried out by two of Europes leading opthalmologists assisted by veterinarians.

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Elephants and Egotists by Patricia Sumerling
• Bob Cline, Cheraw, South Carolina, United States. Autor of the book Americas elephants
• Survey 2008 - Elephants in European circuses published by European Elephant Group: Tobias Dornbusch, Jürgen Schilfarth
  
• https://www.facebook.com/cirque.medrano/posts/1969612459785399
  
  

Relevant links

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: Skanda Vale Temple
• More elephants from: United Kingdom
• More elephants that was born: 1966
• 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
• Asianelephant.net
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• Buckles Blog
• circushistory.org
• Elephant_Commentator
• Elefanten-Fotolexikon.eu
• elefanten.wikia
• Google Internet search
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