Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Manikantan at Sakrebyle elephant camp (Sacrebyle, Sakrebail)

Location

Manikantan is a living confiscated Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) , located at Sakrebyle elephant camp (Sacrebyle, Sakrebail), in India.

Manikantan arrived Sakrebyle elephant camp (Sacrebyle, Sakrebail) unknown date, relocated from Dubare elephant camp (Aanekaadu), in India.

In Sakrebyle elephant camp (Sacrebyle, Sakrebail), Manikantan lives together with 21 other elephants with records as alive in this database:

1. 1. ♀ Kaveri born >1936
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2. 2. ♀ Aale born 2007
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3. 3. ♀ Banumathi born 1989?
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4. 4. ♂ Ganesha born 1974
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5. 5. ♀ Gange born 1960
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6. 6. ⚪ Gayithri
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7. 7. ♀ Kaneni
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8. 8. ♀ Kunti
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9. 9. ♀ Lilli
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10. 10. ♀ Mayura
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11. 11. ♀ Netravathi born 1999
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12. 12. ♂ Sagar born 1984
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13. 13. ♀ Sharada
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14. 14. ♀ Subathra born >1946
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15. 15. ⚪ Thirtharama
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16. 16. ♂ unknown born 2018-08-29
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17. 17. ⚪ unknown born 2021-03-04
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18. 18. ♀ unknown born 2014-00-00
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19. 19. ⚪ unknown born 2016-09-00
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20. 20. ♀ unknown born 2018
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21. 21. ⚪ unknown born 2020-10-00
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See also a more detailed list with the elephants arrival dates etc.

Origin

Manikantan was born wild .

The elephant had turned violent many times in the past and had crushed to death four persons, including two mahouts, during the past one decade. The latest incident was the killing of the mahout Gopi at Manjanikkara on April 8, 2004.

Sources used for this article is among others:

• http://www.thehindu.com/2005/06/14/stories/2005061406960300.htm
  
• 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

• List of elephant mankillers
• More elephants from: Sakrebyle elephant camp (Sacrebyle, Sakrebail)
• More elephants from: India
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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