Anuradha
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Pinnawala elephant orphanage in Sri Lanka

Biography

☨ ♀ Anuradha

Identification


Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀, unknown age
Origin
Born:	* 1982 wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†
Death reason:	unknown: leg fracture
Offspring
Total: 3 babies

1. Born 1993-11-15	♀ Anuradhika

2. Born 1999-02-09	♂ Wasamba

3. Born 2007?	♂ Asela
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Pinnawala elephant orphanage, in Sri Lanka

Date of arrival

	Pinnawala elephant orphanage
Record history
History of updates	2024-06-27: naming of babies b 2010 and 2011 2024-06-30: more sources added

Latest document update	2020-10-18 06:25:24
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† Anuradha is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died at Pinnawala elephant orphanage, in Sri Lanka, . Official death reason described as leg fracture.

Offspring

Total: 3 babies

Origin

Anuradha was born wild 1982.

Reference list

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Anuradha, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Pinnawala elephant orphanage in Sri Lanka. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 28 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=1841. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sanjaya Kumara Ratnayake, assistant curator, Pinnawala elephant orphanage.
Geburt und Jugendendwicklung von Asiatischen Elefanten -Beoabachtungen aus der Pinnawela Elephant Sanctuary von Sri Lanka, Zeitschrift des Kölner Zoos, nr 2 1999, by Fred Kurt, Birgit Dastig, Sandra Petzhold, Julia Rastelli, Judith Schmelz, Verena Tragau

Litterature about Pinnawala elephant orphanage

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