Gagana is a living Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) , located at the Kandy Sri Dalada Maligawa Temple of the Tooth, in Sri Lanka.
Gagana arrived in 2017-00-00 to the Kandy Sri Dalada Maligawa Temple of the Tooth, relocated from the Sri Lanka National Zoological Gardens (Dehiwela Zoo), in Sri Lanka.
Gagana lives together with 9 other elephants at the Kandy Sri Dalada Maligawa Temple of the Tooth:
Gagana was born captive-born 2011-03-05 at Pinnawala elephant orphanage.
2013: Gagana and Trinky, born on 05. 03. 2011 and 17. 03. 2011, at the Pinnawala Orphanage on August 08 and 09, on the grounds the pair was an offering to the Dehiwala Zoological Gardens for public display Zoo officials yesterday told ‘The Island’ that despite knowing that a two-and-half-year-old elephant, had been detected with TB and was separated from its mother at Pinnawela and brought to Dehiwela, none of the other ten elephants at the zoo had been tested to date. "First and foremost, we are puzzled why Gagana who tested positive and Pinky were brought to the zoo from Pinnawala. It is common knowledge that babies were not separated from their mothers until at least they attain the age of three," a Zoo employee said.
Gagana and Trinky, born on 05. 03. 2011 and 17. 03. 2011, at the Pinnawala Orphanage on August 08 and 09, on the grounds the pair was an offering to the Dehiwala Zoological Gardens for public display
Zoo officials yesterday told ‘The Island’ that despite knowing that a two-and-half-year-old elephant, had been detected with TB and was separated from its mother at Pinnawela and brought to Dehiwela, none of the other ten elephants at the zoo had been tested to date. "First and foremost, we are puzzled why Gagana who tested positive and Pinky were brought to the zoo from Pinnawala. It is common knowledge that babies were not separated from their mothers until at least they attain the age of three," a Zoo employee said.
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