Nandi
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Pinnawala elephant orphanage in Sri Lanka

Nandi lives together with 66 other elephants at the Pinnawala elephant orphanage:

1. 1. ♀ Amali born 1994-04-16
2. 2. ♀ Anuradhika born 1993-11-15
3. 3. ♀ Ashokamala born 1998-08-07
4. 4. ♀ Bharathi born 2007
5. 5. ⚪ Binuki born 2011
6. 6. ♂ Buwaneka born 1999-12-07
7. 7. ♂ Charaka born 2006-00-00
8. 8. ♀ Dinuda born 2009-05-24
9. 9. ♂ Disa (twin) born 2021-08-31
10. 10. ⚪ Diula
11. 11. ⚪ Elvina born 2011
12. 12. ♂ Haritha
13. 13. ♂ Jadura born 1966?
14. 14. ♂ Jayathu
15. 15. ♂ Kadol born 2011
16. 16. ♀ Kamani
17. 17. ♂ Kanaka born 2009-05-24
18. 18. ♂ Kandula III (Bibile)
19. 19. ♀ Kiriya III (Kira)
20. 20. ♀ Komali (Komalee) born 1971
21. 21. ♂ Kora Aliya
22. 22. ♀ Kumari born 1965
23. 23. ♀ Mahaweli (Mahavali) born 1981
24. 24. ♀ Mathali (Mathalee) born 1970
25. 25. ♀ Mayuri born 1983
26. 26. ♂ Meega
27. 27. ♀ Meena
28. 28. ♀ Menika born 1989-08-14
29. 29. ♀ Menika II
30. 30. ♂ Nandimithra born 1995-09-27
31. 31. ♂ Neela born 1964
32. 32. ♀ Nikini II
33. 33. ♀ Ninja born 1985
34. 34. ♀ Noni
35. 35. ♀ Pali born 2003
36. 36. ♂ Pandu born 2005-08-00
37. 37. ♀ Punchi
38. 38. ♀ Ramiya
39. 39. ♀ Randivi
40. 40. ♂ Rangiri born 1989-08-16
41. 41. ♀ Rejina born 1982
42. 42. ♂ Sajjana (twin) born 2021-08-31
43. 43. ♀ Sama
44. 44. ♀ Sama I born 1987-12-18
45. 45. ♀ Sandalee (Sandali)
46. 46. ♀ Sapumali born 1997
47. 47. ♀ Shanthi
48. 48. ♀ Shermi
49. 49. ♀ Sukumali born 1984-07-05
50. 50. ♀ Surangie
51. 51. ♂ Suranimala
52. 52. ♀ Thammenna
53. 53. ♀ Thilaka
54. 54. ⚪ Thilamalai
55. 55. ⚪ unknown born 2011
56. 56. ⚪ unknown born 2010
57. 57. ⚪ unknown born 2011-00-00
58. 58. ⚪ unknown born 2011
59. 59. ⚪ unknown born 2011
60. 60. ⚪ unknown born 2011
61. 61. ⚪ unnamed born 2021-09-11
62. 62. ♂ Unnamed born 2011-07-16
63. 63. ⚪ Unnamed born 2024-03-20
64. 64. ⚪ Unnamed born 2011-02-17
65. 65. ♀ Uthpala born 1999-08-06
66. 66. ♂ Wasamba born 1999-02-09

Nandi was born captive-born 2011 at Pinnawala elephant orphanage.

2016: It was in 2016, when the then New Zealand Prime Minister John Key visited Sri Lanka, that President Sirisena had announced that he would gift to New Zealand the baby elephant Nandi kept in the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage. But opposition to this rose both in Sri Lanka and in New Zealand. The grounds were similar.

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2012/01/08/new22.asp
  
• https://bdnews24.com/wildlife/2017/04/05/sri-lankan-court-case-against-gifting-elephant-to-new-zealand-shifts-focus-to-conservation
  
• http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2016/09/elephant-nandi-stuck-in-sri-lanka.html
  

Relevant links

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• More elephants from: Pinnawala elephant orphanage
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• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
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