Guruvayur Devaswom elephant camp in India

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Guruvayur Devaswom elephant camp


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Local name Guruvayur Devaswom Aanathavalam (Punnathur Kota)
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Address Guruvayur
Place Thrissur
StateKerala
Country India
Website Website
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Elephant keepers
2023: Sarath Parippally
Record history
History of updates2025-04-13:
Latest document update2025-04-13 09:33:07
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Description

Guruvayur Devaswom elephant camp, located at Guruvayur, in Thrissur, Kerala, India .

Living elephants

At the Guruvayur Devaswom elephant camp lives 43 elephants with records in this database: (detail list)
  1. ♂ Achuthan born ~1973
  2. ♂ Akshay Krishnan born 1992?
  3. ♂ Appu born ±1975
  4. ♂ Balakrishnan born 1983
  5. ♂ Balaram
  6. ♂ Balu
  7. ♂ Chandrasekharan born 1979
  8. ♂ Chenthamarakshan
  9. ♂ Damodhara born 2002
  10. ♀ Devi born 1972
  11. ♂ Gokul born 1999
  12. ♂ Gopikrishnan (Gopeekrishnan) born 1974
  13. ♀ Gouri
  14. ♂ Indrasen born 1979
  15. ♂ Junior Kesavan born 1993
  16. ♂ Junior Lekshmanan born <1964
  17. ♂ Junior Madhavan born 1981
  18. ♂ Keerthi born 1997?
  19. ♂ Krishnan born 1970
  20. ♂ Kuttikrishnan
  21. ♂ Lakshmanan
  22. ♂ Mukundan born 1987
  23. ♂ Murali born 1984
  24. ♂ Nandan born 1979
  25. ♂ Narayankutty
  26. ♂ Parthan born 1995?
  27. ♂ Prakashan born 1969
  28. ♂ Radhakrishnan born 1962
  29. ♂ Rajasekharan born 1973
  30. ♂ Ramu born 1973
  31. ♂ Ravikrishnan
  32. ♀ Reshmi born <1983
  33. ♂ Sankara Narayan born 1980
  34. ♂ Sathyanarayanan born 1972
  35. ♂ Sidharthan (Siddarthan) born 1986
  36. ♂ Sreedharan born 1978
  37. ♂ Sreekrishnan born 1999?
  38. ♂ Sudeepan born 1977
  39. ♀ Umadevi born 1972
  40. ♂ Unnikkannan born 1979
  41. ♂ Valiya Vishnu
  42. ♂ Velayudhan
  43. ♂ Vinayakan

Comments / picturesThe elephant stock at Punnathoor Kotta comprises six cow (female) elephants, two Makhna or mozha (tuskless males) and 54 bulls (males) or tuskers.

2021; There are 45 elephants at the Devaswom’s Anakotta.

2024-01-27: With the death of Kannan, the number of Guruvayoor elephants are down to 39.

References for records about Guruvayur Devaswom elephant camp

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2025). Guruvayur Devaswom elephant camp, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=535. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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Guruvayur Devaswom elephant camp on elephant-news.com

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