Indika is a living Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) , located at the Uda Walawe Nationalpark, in Sri Lanka.
Indika arrived in 2001-07-01 to the Uda Walawe Nationalpark, relocated from the Uda Walawe Elephant Transit Home, in Sri Lanka.
Indika lives together with 67 other elephants at the Uda Walawe Nationalpark:
Indika was born wild <1995, captured 1995 , captured at Handapanagala (Southern Sri Lanka).
An elephant drive took place in Handapanagala (Southern Sri Lanka) in 1995 as a measure of mitigating human-elephant conflict in the area. Elephant life disturbed by the drive resulted in a few deaths of Adult animals. One female calf became orphaned following the death of her mother and was rescued by the Department of Wildlife Conservation. The Orphan was named Sandamali and she was among the first arrivals of the Elephant Transit Home (orphan elephant rehabilitation center) in Uda Walawe. She was rehabilitated and released to Uda Walawe national park with a few other orphans in 1998 and when she was about five years old, she was part of the first released batch of the Transit Home. Not knowing this, we named her Indika when we first met her in 2005, which would have made her twelve years old. Interestingly, the first day we met her she was also in the company of [208]. She was seen roaming with her transit-home-mates like Kithmali, Mattali and Evelyn. By the time Indika (AKA Sandamali) gave birth to her first male calf in 2008 we knew of true background and observed with interest. Sumedha shows all signs of Musth as he consorts with Indika (Sandamali) in 2011, which include secretions from the temporal glands on the sides of his head and urine dribbling.
An elephant drive took place in Handapanagala (Southern Sri Lanka) in 1995 as a measure of mitigating human-elephant conflict in the area. Elephant life disturbed by the drive resulted in a few deaths of Adult animals. One female calf became orphaned following the death of her mother and was rescued by the Department of Wildlife Conservation. The Orphan was named Sandamali and she was among the first arrivals of the Elephant Transit Home (orphan elephant rehabilitation center) in Uda Walawe. She was rehabilitated and released to Uda Walawe national park with a few other orphans in 1998 and when she was about five years old, she was part of the first released batch of the Transit Home. Not knowing this, we named her Indika when we first met her in 2005, which would have made her twelve years old. Interestingly, the first day we met her she was also in the company of [208]. She was seen roaming with her transit-home-mates like Kithmali, Mattali and Evelyn. By the time Indika (AKA Sandamali) gave birth to her first male calf in 2008 we knew of true background and observed with interest.
Sumedha shows all signs of Musth as he consorts with Indika (Sandamali) in 2011, which include secretions from the temporal glands on the sides of his head and urine dribbling.
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