Gadapani
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Sildubi elephant camp (Kaziranga) in India

Biography
dead elephant ☨ ♂ Gadapani  dead elephant
Alternative name: Godapani

Identification


Description

Species:Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:Male ♂
Dentition
Incisivestusker

People killed:1: Mary Brumder
Origin
Born:* wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead: 2007-12-02
Death reason: accident: injured by wild bull
Locations - owners
Present / last location:Sildubi elephant camp (Kaziranga), in India

Date of arrival

2007-12-01Sildubi elephant camp (Kaziranga)
from Thungru Kohora elephant camp (Kaziranga)

1998-00-00Thungru Kohora elephant camp (Kaziranga)
from Kaziranga Center for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC)

Record history
History of updates2018-05-23

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† Gadapani is a dead Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 2007-12-02 at Sildubi elephant camp (Kaziranga), in India, . Official death reason described as injured by wild bull.

Origin

Gadapani was born wild .


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Forest guards seized the Tusker at the Digboi forest range in the late sixties and sent him to the national park after his owner a resident of Digboi town, about 500km from Guwahati, refused to pay a fine for his release.

1998-11-17: Gadapanis moment of infamy came on the chilly morning of November 17, 1998, when he attacked rival Bhajan, who was carrying a Group of foreign tourists on its back. Mary Brumder, an 80-year-old tourist from the US, fell off the seat strapped to Bhajans back and died on impact.

1998: The forest department immediately put Gadapani under "house arrest" in a camp. While serving his sentence, Gadapani was attacked by a wild Herd and seriously injured. Around the same time, a probe revealed that he was not entirely to blame for the tourists death.

Since being injured in the attack by a wild herd, Gadapani spent most of his time in the elephant intensive care unit at Thungru, about 4km from Mihimukh in the Kohora range of the national park.

2007-12-01: He was shifted to the nearby Sildubi camp on Saturday.

2007-12-02: Kaziranga National Park today lost its loveable rogue, a 78-year-old Tusker who ferried tourists through the grasslands of the rhino habitat for 30 years before a mid-safari joust with a rival elephant killed an American woman and forced it into premature retirement.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2024). Gadapani, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Sildubi elephant camp (Kaziranga) in India. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 28 March 2024 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=3313. (archived at the Wayback machine)


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