Gadapani
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Sildubi elephant camp (Kaziranga) in India

1. 1998-11-17: visitor Mary Brumder fatal accident by Gadapani. Gadapani’s moment of infamy came on the chilly morning of November 17, 1998, when he attacked rival Bhajan, who was carrying a group of foreign tourists on its back. Mary Brumder, an 80-year-old tourist from the US, fell off the seat strapped to Bhajan’s back and died on impact. † Mary Brumder Died 1998-11-17

Gadapani was born wild at Asia unspecified location.

Forest guards seized the Tusker at the Digboi forest range in the late sixties and sent him to the national park after his owner a resident of Digboi town, about 500km from Guwahati, refused to pay a fine for his release.

1998-11-17: Gadapanis moment of infamy came on the chilly morning of November 17, 1998, when he attacked rival Bhajan, who was carrying a Group of foreign tourists on its back. Mary Brumder, an 80-year-old tourist from the US, fell off the seat strapped to Bhajans back and died on impact.

1998: The forest department immediately put Gadapani under "house arrest" in a camp. While serving his sentence, Gadapani was attacked by a wild Herd and seriously injured. Around the same time, a probe revealed that he was not entirely to blame for the tourists death.

Since being injured in the attack by a wild herd, Gadapani spent most of his time in the elephant intensive care unit at Thungru, about 4km from Mihimukh in the Kohora range of the national park.

2007-12-01: He was shifted to the nearby Sildubi camp on Saturday.

2007-12-02: Kaziranga National Park today lost its loveable rogue, a 78-year-old Tusker who ferried tourists through the grasslands of the rhino habitat for 30 years before a mid-safari joust with a rival elephant killed an American woman and forced it into premature retirement.

References

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• https://www.telegraphindia.com/1071203/asp/northeast/story_8620086.asp (dead link) archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20081122004731/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1071203/asp/northeast/story_8620086.asp
  
  
  

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