Sources used for this list:
| Latest update | Name of elephant | Source (if it is a website, the target website will open in new window) |
|---|
| 2025-08-21 |
Fujiko: | • https://www.chunichi.co.jp/article/1108745 |
| 2025-07-20 |
Bhatiya: | • https://lankasara.com/news/iconic-wild-tusker-bhathiya-succumbs/
•
https://alt.army.lk/sfhqwest/content/providing-special-contribution-save-life-bhathiya-tusker |
| 2024-12-01 |
Deegadanthu 01: | • https://sundaytimes.lk/online/news-online/Deegadanthu-01-no-more/2-1147575 |
| 2024-01-21 |
Tissa Saman: | • https://www.pressreader.com/sri-lanka/daily-mirror-sri-lanka/20190930/281848645335160 |
| 2023-11-29 |
Mali: | • http://friendsofmanilazoo.org/2011/will-mali-have-a-new-elephant-friend-soon-sri-lanka-to-gift-baby-elephant-to-manila-zoo/
•
Jonas Livet, France
•
http://zoonewsdigest.blogspot.com/2010/01/manila-zoos-elephant.html
•
<a href="http://www.elephant-news.com/index.php?id=3741">"Manila zoo orders therapy for stressed-out animals," Elephant-News.com, 2008-04-16</a>
•
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1867237/manila-zoo-elephant-mali-dies
•
http://www.elephant-news.com/index.php?id=7929 |
| 2023-08-31 |
Agbo Hastiya: | • https://www.ravanalankanews.lk/en/agbo-begins-treatment-2/
•
https://www.dailynews.lk/2023/07/31/local/54383/tusker-agbo-recovering-now-vet/
•
https://www.dailymirror.lk/breaking_news/Elephant-Agbo-getting-weaker-Wildlife-Minister/108-264996
•
https://www.dailymirror.lk/print/front_page/Foreign-doctors-to-treat-injured-tusker/238-264896
•
https://www.dailynews.lk/2023/08/18/local/82356/continued-treatment-for-agbo/ |
| 2021-09-01 |
Surangie: | •
•
http://www.elephant-news.com/index.php?id=7733 |
| 2021-06-30 |
Rewatha: | • https://www.newswire.lk/2021/03/09/sri-lankan-tusker-rewatha-found-dead-in-kala-wewa/
•
http://www.elephant-news.com/index.php?id=7694 |
| 2021-02-03 |
Shirley: | • Elisabeth (Green) Dane, Concord, NH
•
Billboard 9 nov 1946
•
Ryan Easley, USA
•
https://www.wildadventures.com/Media-Room/Shirley
|
| 2020-11-08 |
unknown: | •
•
http://www.elephant-news.com/index.php?id=4881 |
| 2020-11-08 |
unknown: | •
•
http://www.elephant-news.com/index.php?id=4881 |
| 2020-10-17 |
Baby: | • Saminda Prashath, Colombo
•
Elephants from CR and SR (Zoo Usti nad Labem)
•
Jana Havlová
•
87-year history of elephants maintenance in Kyiv Zoo, Ukraine, by Kirill Trantin, Kiev Zoo |
| 2020-10-06 |
Hansken: | • M. Roscam Abbing, “Elephant Hansken”; www.elephanthansken.com”; https://www.elephanthansken.com/about/
•
https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company
•
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40656-020-00340-z |
| 2020-10-06 |
Hans: | • Peter Stolk, Netherlands
•
Elephants and Egotists by Patricia Sumerling
•
Jonas Livet, France
•
http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/pdf_files/149/1498297155.pdf
•
http://www.museum-bourges.net/museum-hans-l-%C3%A9l%C3%A9phant-85.html |
| 2020-10-06 |
Grete: | • Peter Stolk, Netherlands
•
Jonas Livet, France
•
http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/pdf_files/149/1498297155.pdf |
| 2020-09-21 |
Kaavan: | • Jonas Livet, France
•
http://kaavan1.rssing.com/browser.php?indx=58293335&last=1&item=3
•
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2020/05/22/Court-orders-zoo-to-free-Pakistans-loneliest-elephant/4501590169401/
•
https://www.gulf-times.com/story/673397/Govt-undecided-about-two-bears-lone-elephant-in-Islamabad-s-zoo
•
https://www.urdupoint.com/en/pakistan/president-first-lady-bid-adieu-to-kaavan-lea-1094760.html |
| 2018-12-01 |
Galgamuwa Dala Poottuwa: | • http://dailynews.lk/2017/11/30/local/136050/galgamuwa-tusker%E2%80%99s-carcass-found
|
| 2018-11-04 |
Namalee: | • https://www.bva.co.uk/uploadedFiles/Content/Membership_and_benefits/Students/liliana-heinrich-travel-grant-full-report.pdf |
| 2018-10-23 |
Devi: | • Jenny Pastorini, Sri Lanka.
|
| 2018-10-23 |
Kuveni: | • Jenny Pastorini, Sri Lanka.
|
| 2018-09-19 |
Valli: | • http://www.skandavale.org.uk/articles/Animals.htm
•
https://www.skandavale.org/about/elephants/#:~:text=Living%20with%20us%20in%20Skanda,a%20day%20in%20our%20woodlands. |
| 2018-08-02 |
Delhi: | • Pamela Macgregor-Morris, Chipperfield's Circus, published 1957
•
Hans Romlund, Give, Denmark.
•
Erland Wadsten, Stockholm
•
Erik Munk Sørensen, Frederik Iversens liv og virke
|
| 2018-05-29 |
Anusha: | • Anthony Ganesh, registrar, Singapore Zoo & Night Safari
•
Wolfgang Nehring
|
| 2018-05-26 |
Sumedha: | • https://asianelephant.wordpress.com/2017/12/15/sumedhas-epic-musth/
•
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/photosin-search-of-sri-lankas-vanishing-tuskers/ |
| 2018-05-17 |
Sapumali: | • Captive Breeding of Elephants at Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage in Sri Lanka, by Chandana Rajapaksa, University of Peradeniya |
| 2018-05-17 |
Soma I: | • http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2011/06/12/elephants-at-the-mercy-of-a-monk/
|
| 2018-05-17 |
Abhaya: | • http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=23379
•
http://www.hirunews.lk/167228/gagana-abhaya-senarath-join-dalada-perahera
|
| 2018-05-17 |
Diula: | • K.G. Sumanabanda, 2011
|
| 2018-05-10 |
Geeta: | • News article
|
| 2018-05-09 |
unknown: | • Status of the domestic elephant population in Sri Lanka by Jayantha Jayewardene
|
| 2018-05-08 |
unknown: | • Status of the domestic elephant population in Sri Lanka by Jayantha Jayewardene
|
| 2018-05-03 |
Ceylon: | • Survey 2008 - Elephants in European circuses published by European Elephant Group: Tobias Dornbusch, Jürgen Schilfarth
• Johan Vinberg, Henrik Møller, Cirkus i Danmark
|
| 2018-04-26 |
Mudiyanse: | • K. G. Sumanabanda
•
Wayne Jackson |
| 2016-12-19 |
Queen: | • Bob Cline, Cheraw, South Carolina, United States. Autor of the book Americas elephantsS
• page 23, Elefanten in Zoo und Circus, Dokumentation 2 Nordamerika, 1997, by European Elephant Group: Haufellner, Schilfarth, Schweiger
• http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9D00EEDF1E3CEE3ABC4C53DFB4668389699FDE |
| 2016-01-05 |
Dorothy: | • Bob Cline, Cheraw, South Carolina, United States. Autor of the book Americas elephants
•
http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2008/07/james-m-cole-elephants-1-from-dick.html
•
http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2011/04/1950-elephants-9.html |
| 2013-05-02 |
Forepaughs Bolivar: | • http://www.ansp.org/200/stories/phillys-un-friendliest-celebrity
•
Bob Cline, Cheraw, South Carolina, United States. Autor of the book Americas elephants
•
Elefanten in Zoo und Circus, Dokumentation 2 Nordamerika, 1997, by European Elephant Group: Haufellner, Schilfarth, Schweiger
•
https://ansp.org/exhibits/online-exhibits/stories/phillys-un-friendliest-celebrity/
•
https://www.zoochat.com/community/threads/bolivar-the-elephant-at-philadelphia-zoo-1888-1908.473755/ |
| 2013-04-28 |
Miss Kumbuk: | • Jonas Livet, France
•
http://www.orchifant.de/34.html
•
https://www.baslerstadtbuch.ch/stadtbuch/1974/1974_1381.html |
| 2013-03-22 |
unknown: | • The Last Kraal in Sri Lanka, article by H. I. E. Katugaha, Gajah 29 (2008) 5-10.
•
Elapatha, S. Jnr. (1997) Elephant kraals at Panamure – A historical record. Loris 21: 118-125. |
| 2013-03-22 |
unknown: | • The Last Kraal in Sri Lanka, article by H. I. E. Katugaha, Gajah 29 (2008) 5-10.
•
Elapatha, S. Jnr. (1997) Elephant kraals at Panamure – A historical record. Loris 21: 118-125. |
| 2013-01-13 |
Raja: | • http://www.lankapuvath.lk/index.php/latest-news/general2/28030-blind-pinnawala-raja-dies |
| 2012-10-31 |
Veneda: | • Animals Are My Life, by Lorenz Hagenbeck
•
Page 62, Carl Hagenbeck, by Haug von Kuenheim
• Bob Cline, Cheraw, South Carolina, United States. Autor of the book Americas elephants
• Buckles Weblog
• Page 49, Elefanten in Zoo und Circus, Dokumentation 2 Nordamerika, 1997, by European Elephant Group: Haufellner, Schilfarth, Schweiger |
| 2012-10-12 |
Anura: | • http://www.nation.lk/2007/05/13/news2.htm
•
http://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/event/2007/5/1173380_848.html
•
http://showmeelephants.blogspot.com/2011/08/tama-zoological-park.html
•
Jonas Livet, France |
| 2012-10-02 |
Reynolds Jennie: | • Bob Cline, Cheraw, South Carolina, United States. Autor of the book Americas elephants
•
https://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2012/02/bingo-3.html |
| 2012-09-30 |
Baldy: | • Page 46, Elefanten in Zoo und Circus, Dokumentation 2 Nordamerika, 1997, by European Elephant Group: Haufellner, Schilfarth, Schweiger
•
Bob Cline, Cheraw, South Carolina, United States. Autor of the book Americas elephants
•
https://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2012/02/bingo-3.html |
| 2012-09-19 |
Maibel (Majbel): | • Hans Romlund, Give, Denmark. |
| 2012-09-19 |
Dinah: | • Hans Romlund, Give, Denmark.
•
Erland Axel Wadsten, Stockholm, Sweden. |
| 2012-09-17 |
Mary: | • Pamela Macgregor-Morris, Chipperfield's Circus, published 1957
•
Jim Stockley, South Africa |
| 2012-09-17 |
Lelia: | • Jim Clubb, UK
•
Jim Stockley, South Africa |
| 2012-09-17 |
Sally: | • Jim Clubb, UK
•
Pamela Macgregor-Morris, Chipperfield's Circus, published 1957
•
http://showmeelephants.blogspot.com/2011/06/jim-stockley-collection-chipperfields_12.html
•
Jim Stockley, South Africa |
| 2012-09-04 |
Freda: | • Peter Stolk, Netherlands |
| 2012-08-28 |
Mandarin: | • Bob Cline, Cheraw, South Carolina, United States. Autor of the book Americas elephants
•
Wild Animals in and out of the Zoo by William M. Mann |
| 2012-08-28 |
Pilate: | • Bob Cline, Cheraw, South Carolina, United States. Autor of the book Americas elephants
•
NY Times April 6, 1883 |
| 2012-04-12 |
Panakka: | • Page 123, 124, Funfundzwanzig Jahre Ceylonaswx, 1922, by John Hagenbeck. |
| 2012-03-31 |
Vibhishana: | • Rajiv Welikala, Sri Lanka |
| 2012-03-31 |
Kumbhakarna: | • Rajiv Welikala |
| 2012-03-31 |
Gajaba: | • https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/photosin-search-of-sri-lankas-vanishing-tuskers/ |
| 2012-03-31 |
Kubuk: | • Jenny Pastorini, Sri Lanka. |
| 2012-03-31 |
458 (wild): | • Sameera Weeratunga, Field Manager, Udawalawe Elephant Research Project. |
| 2012-03-31 |
Therapuththa: | • Sameera Weeratunga, Field Manager, Udawalawe Elephant Research Project. https://maximus.trunksnleaves.org/2020/12/24/a-christmas-wish/ |
| 2012-03-31 |
Barana: | • https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/photosin-search-of-sri-lankas-vanishing-tuskers/ |
| 2012-03-31 |
Palikanatta: | • K. G. Sumunabanda |
| 2012-03-27 |
Sinha Raja: | • https://ceylontoday.lk/news/gentle-giants-worthy-of-carrying-relic-casket |
| 2012-03-27 |
Jana Raja: | • https://ceylontoday.lk/news/gentle-giants-worthy-of-carrying-relic-casket |
| 2012-03-11 |
Muthu: | • https://th.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g1950222-d4103391-i112449480-Muthiyangana_Raja_Maha_Viharaya-Badulla_Uva_Province.html |
| 2012-03-11 |
Madhu: | • https://island.lk/30-year-old-temple-elephant-dies-after-fall-while-being-loaded-onto-a-truck/ |
| 2012-02-20 |
Sumana: | • http://www.millenniumelephantfoundation.com/elephants/sumana/ |
| 2012-02-18 |
Komali: | • Dublin Zoo annual report 1950, through Sandra Molloy, Dublin Zoo.
•
http://www.dublinzoo.ie/Gallery/Sarah%20the%20elephant%20washing%202%20year%20old%20Komali%20at%20Dublin%20Zoo%20in%201950/21-5814834768/Sarah-the-elephant-washing-2-year-old-Komali-at-Dublin-Zoo-in-1950.aspx |
| 2012-02-11 |
unknown: | • 1954 Ceylon Administration report, Sri Lanka national Archives, Colombo. |
| 2012-01-31 |
Bandula: | • https://www.newswire.lk/2022/09/23/iconic-elephant-bandula-dies-at-dehiwala-zoo/?fbclid=IwAR07jexUqzNpF0SDP0MGYiyDbpihfd_3Wz-rFAgmcQgQuYUkbgwCg6S6dOM |
| 2012-01-31 |
Indi: | • Wayne Jackson, Canada
•
Jonas Livet, France |
| 2012-01-31 |
Menika: | • K. G. Sumanabanda |
| 2012-01-31 |
Raja: | • K. G. Sumanabanda |
| 2012-01-30 |
Neela: | • Sanjaya Kumara Ratnayake, assistant curator, Pinnawala elephant orphanage. |
| 2012-01-30 |
Ranmali (Ranmalee): | • Sanjaya Kumara Ratnayake, assistant curator, Pinnawala elephant orphanage.
•
Geburt und Jugendendwicklung von Asiatischen Elefanten -Beoabachtungen aus der Pinnawela Elephant Sanctuary von Sri Lanka, Zeitschrift des Kölner Zoos, nr 2 1999, by Fred Kurt, Birgit Dastig, Sandra Petzhold, Julia Rastelli, Judith Schmelz, Verena Tragau |
| 2011-12-30 |
Komali (Komalee): | • Geburt und Jugendendwicklung von Asiatischen Elefanten -Beoabachtungen aus der Pinnawela Elephant Sanctuary von Sri Lanka, Zeitschrift des Kölner Zoos, nr 2 1999, by Fred Kurt, Birgit Dastig, Sandra Petzhold, Julia Rastelli, Judith Schmelz, Verena Tragau |
| 2011-12-30 |
Kumari: | • Geburt und Jugendendwicklung von Asiatischen Elefanten -Beoabachtungen aus der Pinnawela Elephant Sanctuary von Sri Lanka, Zeitschrift des Kölner Zoos, nr 2 1999, by Fred Kurt, Birgit Dastig, Sandra Petzhold, Julia Rastelli, Judith Schmelz, Verena Tragau |
| 2011-12-30 |
Mathali (Mathalee): | • Geburt und Jugendendwicklung von Asiatischen Elefanten -Beoabachtungen aus der Pinnawela Elephant Sanctuary von Sri Lanka, Zeitschrift des Kölner Zoos, nr 2 1999, by Fred Kurt, Birgit Dastig, Sandra Petzhold, Julia Rastelli, Judith Schmelz, Verena Tragau |
| 2011-12-04 |
Camella (Kamala): | • Pamela Macgregor-Morris, Chipperfield's Circus, published 1957
•
Jim Stockley, South Africa |
| 2011-11-27 |
Blackie: | • Pamela Macgregor-Morris, Chipperfield's Circus, published 1957
•
Jim Stockley |
| 2010-11-23 |
Baby Boo (Baby Baraboo): | • In 1937, the Cole Bros. Circus gave the Zoo two female elephants: Tommy and the infamous Boo. Soon tiring of Boo’s homicidal tendencies, Wegeforth had her executed. |
| 2010-09-08 |
Mahaweli (Mahavali): | • Wayne Jackson, Canada
•
Geburt und Jugendendwicklung von Asiatischen Elefanten -Beoabachtungen aus der Pinnawela Elephant Sanctuary von Sri Lanka, Zeitschrift des Kölner Zoos, nr 2 1999, by Fred Kurt, Birgit Dastig, Sandra Petzhold, Julia Rastelli, Judith Schmelz, Verena Tragau |
| 2010-09-08 |
Rejina: | • Wayne jackson, Canada
•
Geburt und Jugendendwicklung von Asiatischen Elefanten -Beoabachtungen aus der Pinnawela Elephant Sanctuary von Sri Lanka, Zeitschrift des Kölner Zoos, nr 2 1999, by Fred Kurt, Birgit Dastig, Sandra Petzhold, Julia Rastelli, Judith Schmelz, Verena Tragau
•
https://www.runews.lk/news/item/24912-pinnawala-elephatn |
| 2010-09-08 |
Kotmalya: | • Wayne Jackson, Canada |
| 2010-09-07 |
Anusha: | • Wayne Jackson, Canada
•
Geburt und Jugendendwicklung von Asiatischen Elefanten -Beoabachtungen aus der Pinnawela Elephant Sanctuary von Sri Lanka, Zeitschrift des Kölner Zoos, nr 2 1999, by Fred Kurt, Birgit Dastig, Sandra Petzhold, Julia Rastelli, Judith Schmelz, Verena Tragau |
| 2010-08-31 |
Mayuri: | • Geburt und Jugendendwicklung von Asiatischen Elefanten -Beoabachtungen aus der Pinnawela Elephant Sanctuary von Sri Lanka, Zeitschrift des Kölner Zoos, nr 2 1999, by Fred Kurt, Birgit Dastig, Sandra Petzhold, Julia Rastelli, Judith Schmelz, Verena Tragau |
| 2010-05-19 |
Marry: | • Jonas Livet, France
•
https://www.47news.jp/localnews/6561740.html |
| 2010-05-11 |
Jayathu: | • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junius_Richard_Jayewardene
•
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/photographs/large/c22628-16.jpg |
| 2010-04-23 |
unknown: | • Origin of elephants in Borneo, by Earl of Cranbrook, J. Payne and Charles M.U. Leh
|
| 2010-04-23 |
unknown: | • Origin of elephants in Borneo, by Earl of Cranbrook, J. Payne and Charles M.U. Leh
|
| 2010-04-23 |
unknown: | • Origin of elephants in Borneo, by Earl of Cranbrook, J. Payne and Charles M.U. Leh
|
| 2010-04-23 |
unknown: | • Origin of elephants in Borneo, by Earl of Cranbrook, J. Payne and Charles M.U. Leh
|
| 2010-04-23 |
unknown: | • Origin of elephants in Borneo, by Earl of Cranbrook, J. Payne and Charles M.U. Leh
|
| 2009-11-25 |
Walli: | • Christoffer Brack, Wüppertal, Germany. Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100073098771893 |
| 2009-11-21 |
unknown: | • Page 14, 19, 42, Funfundzwanzig Jahre Ceylonaswx, 1922, by John Hagenbeck. |
| 2009-11-14 |
Hebe (Babe): | • Buckles Weblog 1
• Buckles Weblog 2 |
| 2009-11-14 |
Chieftain (Big Chief): | • Bob Cline, Cheraw, South Carolina, United States. Autor of the book Americas elephants
• Buckles Weblog |
| 2009-11-14 |
Emperor: | • Bob Cline, Cheraw, South Carolina, United States. Autor of the book Americas elephants
• page 23, Elefanten in Zoo und Circus, Dokumentation 2 Nordamerika, 1997, by European Elephant Group: Haufellner, Schilfarth, Schweiger |
| 2009-08-14 |
Icky: | • https://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2007/08/ringling-barnum-1949-6.html |
| 2007-05-03 |
Pandu: | • https://www.runews.lk/news/item/24912-pinnawala-elephatn |
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