Ganapati
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Rajarajeshwara Temple in India

Biography

Ganapati is a living Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) , located at the Rajarajeshwara Temple, in India.

Ganapati arrived to the Rajarajeshwara Temple unknown date, relocated from the Karnataka unspecified location, in India.

In Rajarajeshwara Temple, Ganapati lives as single living elephant at this location

Ganapati was born wild at Asia unspecified location.

Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa is said to have purchased the nine-year-old tusker, Ganapati, which he gifted away to a Kerala temple on Thursday, at a whopping Rs 30 lakh from a trader in Tirunelli of Wayanad district...The chief minister's gifting of the Adolescent Tusker to the Rajarajeshwara temple in Kannur district, has angered wildlife lovers in Kerala as well as Karnataka...The Rajarajeshwara temple already houses Sivasundaram, a 20-year-old Tusker gifted by a Coimbatore-based businessman in 2000.

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/report-yeddyurappa-purchased-elephant-for-rs-30-lakh-1204227
  
  
• 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
• Database for Captive Elephants and their Mahouts in Karnataka
  made 2009 by Surendra Varma, Shiela Rao, Suparna Ganguly and Rajendra Hasbhavi, India

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