Mathigodu elephant Camp in India

Mathigodu elephant Camp
Local name	Thithimathi
Type	camp

Owner
Address	Mathigodu
Place	Thithimathi
District	Kodagu district
State	Karnataka
Country	India

Directors	D Mahesh Kumar

Key People

Veterinarians	Dr Mujeeb Rehman

Elephant department

Head keepers of elephants

Elephant keepers	-: Thimma -2010: Sannapa
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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)

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♂ Abhimanyu born 1964?
♂ Balarama born 1956?
♂ Bhima born 1998?
♂ Krishna born 1961
♀ Maasti born 1995
♂ Sri Rama
♂ Srinivas
♀ 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)

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2016-11-23	Mathigodu elephant camp faces water, fodder shortage - Elephant News
	Demand for karnataka elephants from other states, 12 to sent to uttarakhand - Elephant News
2020-09-10	Forest department begins selection process of dasara elephants - Elephant News
2020-10-08	Howdah 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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