Relocated elephants from Pinnawala elephant orphanage in Sri Lanka
Reference list
Facts about previously kept elephants, relocated from Pinnawala elephant orphanage in Sri Lanka, Elephant Encyclopedia, Koehl, D. (2025), available online retrieved 12 May 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=43 (archived at the Wayback machine)Latest update | Name of elephant | Source (if it is a website, the target website will open in new window) |
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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 |
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 |
2020-06-28 | Shanthi: | • J. C. Danzansky, Washington Zoo • Ryan Easley, USA • "Washington National Zoo Artificially Inseminates Asian Elephant Shanti," 2007-04-02 • "National Zoo Tries to Get Asian Elephant Pregnant," 2008-01-19 • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/national-zoo-mourns-beloved-member-its-herd-180975211/ |
2018-12-06 | Sumithi: | • Ruka |
2018-11-05 | Kelaniya (Atlas): | • http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2011/06/05/pinnawala-elephants-to-be-given-away/
• http://www.sundaytimes.lk/090111/News/sundaytimesnews_21.html • https://www.bva.co.uk/uploadedFiles/Content/Membership_and_benefits/Students/liliana-heinrich-travel-grant-full-report.pdf |
2018-11-05 | Wasala: | • http://www.lankatruth.com/home-2/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6526:wildlife-ministers-interest-in-mirigama-elephant-calf-&catid=42:smartphones&Itemid=74
• https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/baby-j-found-in-kandalama-walauwa/ |
2018-11-04 | Trinki: | • "Another birth at Pinnawala," DailyNews.lk, 2011-03-18
• http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=85838 • https://www.bva.co.uk/uploadedFiles/Content/Membership_and_benefits/Students/liliana-heinrich-travel-grant-full-report.pdf |
2018-10-05 | Kamala: | • Brent Van Hooft, Elephant Keeper Calgary Zoo
• Kathleen Hewitt, Calgary Zoo • https://nationalzoo.si.edu/news/elderly-female-asian-elephant-dies-smithsonians-national-zoo-and-conservation-biology • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_(elephant) |
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. |
2018-08-07 | Gajaba: | • http://koreabizwire.com/asian-elephant-at-seoul-grand-park-dies-suddenly/122439 |
2018-05-17 | Esala: | • 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 |
2018-05-17 | Vidula: | • R. C. Rajapaksa
• Captive Breeding of Elephants at Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage in Sri Lanka, by Chandana Rajapaksa, University of Peradeniya • http://www.colombopage.com/archive_07/September4133946SL.html |
2018-05-17 | Senarath: | • Sanjaya Kumara Ratnayake, assistant curator, Pinnawala elephant orphanage.
• http://www.hirunews.lk/167228/gagana-abhaya-senarath-join-dalada-perahera |
2018-05-17 | Soma I: | • http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2011/06/12/elephants-at-the-mercy-of-a-monk/ |
2018-05-17 | Mahasen: | • Sanjaya Kumara Ratnayake, assistant curator, Pinnawala elephant orphanage
• Captive Breeding of Elephants at Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage in Sri Lanka, by Chandana Rajapaksa, University of Peradeniya |
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 | Gagana: | • http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2012/01/08/new22.asp
• http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=85838 • http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=92895 • http://www.hirunews.lk/167228/gagana-abhaya-senarath-join-dalada-perahera |
2018-05-17 | Amara: | • http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2012/01/08/new22.asp
• Captive Breeding of Elephants at Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage in Sri Lanka, by Chandana Rajapaksa, University of Peradeniya |
2018-05-17 | Isira: | • http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2012/01/08/new22.asp
• http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=126765 • https://www.raresl.org/the-rare-impact |
2018-05-17 | Asela: | • <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228378716_Captive_Breeding_of_Elephants_at_Pinnawala_Elephant_Orphanage_in_Sri_Lanka">Captive Breeding of Elephants at Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage in Sri Lanka, by Chandana Rajapaksa, University of Peradeniya</a>
• https://www.dailymirror.lk/print/front_page/Poisoned-watermelon-given-to-elephant/238-265668 |
2018-05-10 | Geeta: | • News article |
2018-05-04 | Kapila: | • http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2011/08/14/fea04.asp |
2017-03-09 | Ceyla (Ceyla-Himali): | • http://www.upali.ch (Georges Frei, Switzerland) |
2016-03-31 | Anjalee: | • Sanjaya Kumara Ratnayake, assistant curator, Pinnawala elephant orphanage.
• http://www.aucklandzoo.co.nz/sites/explore-the-zoo/elephants/Elephant-profiles |
2016-01-03 | Janita: | • Sanjaya Kumara Ratnayake, assistant curator, Pinnawala elephant orphanage. |
2016-01-03 | Tamara: | • Sanjaya Kumara Ratnayake, assistant curator, Pinnawala elephant orphanage. |
2014-01-31 | Anula: | • Sanjaya Kumara Ratnayake, assistant curator, Pinnawala elephant orphanage. |
2013-10-18 | Namally: | • Tomokazu Doigami
• Sanjaya Kumara Ratnayake, assistant curator, Pinnawala elephant orphanage. • Jonas Livet, France |
2013-10-18 | Milinda: | • Tomokazu Doigami
• https://www.sundaytimes.lk/080113/Plus/plus00012.html |
2013-05-26 | Kandula II (Weera, Wira): | • Sanjaya Kumara Ratnayake, assistant curator, Pinnawala elephant orphanage. |
2013-02-24 | Ranga: | • Peter Stolk, Netherlands
• http://www.city.tokushima.tokushima.jp/zoo/topics/2008/topics20080815_02.html • Jonas Livet, France |
2012-05-04 | Saheli (Sahaily, Menika): | • http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/05/01/city/islamabad/female-elephant-dies-at-murgahazar-zoo/
• http://tribune.com.pk/story/373078/death-of-an-elephant/ • Jonas Livet, France |
2012-02-09 | Ashokamala: | • 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 |
2012-01-31 | Arjuna: | • 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 |
2012-01-31 | Tharindu: | • Sanjaya Kumara Ratnayake, assistant curator, Pinnawala elephant orphanage. |
2012-01-31 | Sugala: | • Sanjaya Kumara Ratnayake, assistant curator, Pinnawala elephant orphanage. |
2012-01-31 | Wishwa: | • Sanjaya Kumara Ratnayake, assistant curator, Pinnawala elephant orphanage.
• https://www.raresl.org/the-rare-impact |
2012-01-31 | Mehedu (Mihindu): | • http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2011/06/05/pinnawala-elephants-to-be-given-away/ |
2012-01-30 | Migara: | • Sanjaya Kumara Ratnayake, assistant curator, Pinnawala elephant orphanage. |
2012-01-30 | Isuru: | • 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 |
2012-01-30 | Salia (Saliya): | • 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 |
2012-01-30 | Pinnawala: | • Sanjaya Kumara Ratnayake, assistant curator, Pinnawala elephant orphanage. |
2012-01-30 | Kosala (Kosara): | • http://sundaytimes.lk/070819/Plus/pls12.html |
2011-03-17 | Mihiri: | • http://www.dailynews.lk/2011/03/18/news42.asp |
2010-09-07 | Mali: | • Wayne Jackson, Canada |
2010-05-19 | Marry: | • Jonas Livet, France
• https://www.47news.jp/localnews/6561740.html |
2009-04-26 | Devi: | • Ruka |
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2015-04-09 | Update: attempt to seize oruwala elephants engaged in polo results in jumbo encounter - Elephant News |
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