Sreekanteswaram Sivakumar
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Kanthaloor Mahadeva Temple in India

Biography

☨ ♂ Sreekanteswaram Sivakumar
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Identification

Chip id Number	00065DDDCE
Certificate Number	452
Kerala database nr	614

Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Male ♂, unknown age, unknown age
Origin
Born:	* 1954 wild (unconfirmed claimed birth date)
Birth place:	in India unspecified location
Death
Dead:	†2023-06-22
Death location:	Kanthaloor Mahadeva Temple
Death reason:	age:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Kanthaloor Mahadeva Temple, in India

Date of arrival

	Kanthaloor Mahadeva Temple from Sreekanteswaram Mahadeva Temple

Record history
History of updates	2023-08-10

Latest document update	2023-08-10 17:13:04
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† Sreekanteswaram Sivakumar is a dead Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 2023-06-22 at Kanthaloor Mahadeva Temple, in India, .

Origin

Sreekanteswaram Sivakumar was born wild at India unspecified location.

Comments / pictures

2023-06-29: Several elephant lovers paid a tearful adieu to Sreekanteswaram Sivakumar, a captive elephant managed by the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB), which died at the Kanthalloor Mahadeva temple at Valiyasala on Thursday following prolonged illness.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Sreekanteswaram Sivakumar, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Kanthaloor Mahadeva Temple in India. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 30 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=16940. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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

Litterature about Kanthaloor Mahadeva Temple