Mathigodu elephant Camp in India


Mathigodu elephant Camp
Local name Thithimathi
Typecamp
Owner
Address Mathigodu
Place Thithimathi
District Kodagu district
StateKarnataka
Country India
DirectorsD Mahesh Kumar
Key People
VeterinariansDr Mujeeb Rehman
Elephant department
Head keepers
of elephants
Elephant keepers -: Thimma
-2010: Sannapa
Google map
Relevant literature

Description

Mathigodu elephant Camp, located at Mathigodu, in Thithimathi, Karnataka, India .

Living elephants

At the Mathigodu elephant Camp lives 9 elephants with records in this database: (detail list)
  1. ⚪
  2. ♂ Abhimanyu born 1964?
  3. ♂ Balarama born 1956?
  4. ♂ Bhima born 1998?
  5. ♂ Krishna born 1961
  6. ♀ Maasti born 1995
  7. ♂ Sri Rama
  8. ♂ Srinivas
  9. ♀ Varalakshmi (Varlaxmi) born 1954?

Comments / picturesMathigodu elephant Camp is located in Thithimathi, Kodagu (also known as by its former name Coorg), an administrative district in the Karnataka state of India.

2013-04: this year all the waterholes have gone dry in Mattigodu elephant camp.

2013-04-20: There are 17 elephants in the camp: They are 53-year-old Balaram which had carried Howdah 13 times during Dasara celebrations, Rajesh (48), Rajendra (46), Krishna (46), Abhimanyu (44), Somashekar (42), Asoka (40), Shekhar (39), Ravi (34), Ganesh, is a Hindu God'>Ganesh (27), Gopalakrishna (27), Khyatha (10), Bheema (10), Srinivas (7), Chamundi (14), Thunga (10), and another one-year-old calf.

2017-2018: 3 elephants sent to Jharkand.

2018-04: 5 elephants sent to West Bengal.

2018: Kabini (6) and Nakula (9) sent to Dudhwa, which left 27 elephants at the camp.

2020-10-14: Rajendra died.

References for records about Mathigodu elephant Camp

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2021). Mathigodu elephant Camp, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=80. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:


Mathigodu elephant Camp on elephant-news.com

Mathigodu elephant Camp is mentioned on Elephant News:

DateLinks which opens in new window
2016-11-23Mathigodu elephant camp faces water, fodder shortage - Elephant News
Demand for karnataka elephants from other states, 12 to sent to uttarakhand - Elephant News
2020-09-10Forest department begins selection process of dasara elephants - Elephant News
2020-10-08Howdah elephant rehearses with 350-kg sand bags - Elephant News
Tamed elephant rajendra dies after being attacked by wild elephant in kodagu's mathigodu elephant camp - Elephant News


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