Chinna
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Kottoor elephant rehabilitation centre (ERC) in India

Chinna lives together with 17 other elephants at the Kottoor elephant rehabilitation centre (ERC) :

1. 1. ♀ Aameena born 2020?
2. 2. ♂ Agasthyan born 2010?
3. 3. ♀ Ammu born 2002
4. 4. ♀ Jaysree born 1972
5. 5. ♂ Kottoor Kannan born 2018-02-00?
6. 6. ♂ Kottoor Soman
7. 7. ♂ Manu born 2017?
8. 8. ♀ Maya born 2017?
9. 9. ♀ Minna born 2003
10. 10. ♂ Moni
11. 11. ♀ Podichi born 2014?
12. 12. ♀ Poorna born 2016?
13. 13. ♂ Raja born 2013?
14. 14. ♂ Rajkumar born 1989
15. 15. ♀ Rana
16. 16. ♀ Sundari born 2009
17. 17. ♂ Unnikrishnan born 2009

Chinna was born wild 2017? at Kerala unspecified location, captured 2018-05-17 , captured at Chinnakanal village, Kerala.

2018-05-17: A day after the wild elephant calf got separated from its Herd at Chinnakkanal near Munnar, the mother elephant of the calf was found dead at Marappalam near Chinnakkanal on Thursday.

2018-05-18: On Friday evening, the calf was transferred to the Kottoor elephant camp near Thiruvananthapuram.

2018-05-25: Dr. C. S. Jayakumar, forest veterinary surgeon who is currently taking care of the baby elephant, said they had named him as ‘Chinna’ after Chinnakanal.

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• https://www.inuth.com/beyond-the-headlines/animals/separated-from-mother-this-baby-elephant-from-kerala-may-land-in-captivity/
  
• http://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/offbeat/baby-wild-elephant-in-town-locals-rush-to-take-pics-chinnakanal-1.2817349
  
• https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/stranded-elephant-calfs-mother-found-dead/articleshow/64215485.cms
  
• https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/from-the-forests-to-munnar-town-to-kottoor-elephant-camp-the-journey-of-an-orphaned-baby-elephant/articleshow/64235787.cms
  
• https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/250518/idukki-people-for-animals-campaign-for-baby-jumbo.html
  
  
• Database for Captive Elephants in Kerala, made 2009 by Surendra Varma, E.K. Easwaran, T.S. Rajeev, Marshal.C.Radhakrishnan, S. R. Sujata and Nibha Namboodiri , India, available online at Database for Captive Elephants in Kerala Retrieved 2018-11-01.
• Districtwise details of Captive Elephants of Kerala by Kerala Forest Department, India

Relevant links

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: Kottoor elephant rehabilitation centre (ERC)
• More elephants from: India
• More elephants that was born: 2017
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• All breeding cows
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• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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