Balu
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Guruvayur Devaswom elephant camp in India

Location

Balu is a living Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) , located at the Guruvayur Devaswom elephant camp, in India.

Balu arrived to the Guruvayur Devaswom elephant camp unknown date, Balu lives together with 45 other elephants at the Guruvayur Devaswom elephant camp:

1. 1. ♂ Achuthan born ~1973
2. 2. ♂ Akshay Krishnan born 1992?
3. 3. ♂ Appu born ±1975
4. 4. ♂ Balakrishnan born 1983
5. 5. ♂ Balaram
6. 6. ♂ Chandrasekharan born 1979
7. 7. ♂ Chenthamarakshan
8. 8. ♂ Damodhara born 2002
9. 9. ♀ Devi born 1972
10. 10. ♂ Gokul born 1999
11. 11. ♂ Gopikrishnan (Gopeekrishnan) born 1974
12. 12. ♀ Gouri born 1958
13. 13. ♂ Indrasen born 1979
14. 14. ♂ Junior Kesavan born 1993
15. 15. ♂ Junior Lekshmanan born <1964
16. 16. ♂ Junior Madhavan born 1981
17. 17. ♂ Kannan born 1969
18. 18. ♂ Keerthi born 1997?
19. 19. ♂ Krishnan born 1970
20. 20. ♂ Kuttikrishnan born 1954
21. 21. ♂ Lakshmanan
22. 22. ♂ Mukundan born 1987
23. 23. ♂ Murali born 1984
24. 24. ♂ Nandan born 1979
25. 25. ♀ Nandini born <1967
26. 26. ♂ Narayankutty born 1958
27. 27. ♂ Parthan born 1995?
28. 28. ♂ Prakashan born 1969
29. 29. ♂ Radhakrishnan born 1962
30. 30. ♂ Rajasekharan born 1973
31. 31. ♂ Ramu born 1973
32. 32. ♂ Ravikrishnan
33. 33. ♀ Reshmi born <1983
34. 34. ♂ Sankara Narayan born 1980
35. 35. ♂ Sathyanarayanan born 1972
36. 36. ♂ Sidharthan (Siddarthan) born 1986
37. 37. ♂ Sreedharan born 1978
38. 38. ♂ Sreekrishnan born 1999?
39. 39. ♂ Sudeepan born 1977
40. 40. ♀ Thara born 1960
41. 41. ♀ Umadevi born 1972
42. 42. ♂ Unnikkannan born 1979
43. 43. ♂ Valiya Vishnu
44. 44. ♂ Velayudhan born 1956
45. 45. ♂ Vinayakan

Origin

Balu was born wild .

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• 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: Guruvayur Devaswom elephant camp
• More elephants from: India
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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