Kamala an Asian elephant at Smithsonian National Zoological Park

Location

Kamala is a living Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), located at Smithsonian National Zoological Park, in United States.

Kamala arrived Smithsonian National Zoological Park 2014-05-22, relocated from Calgary Zoo, in Canada.

In Smithsonian National Zoological Park, Kamala lives together with 4 other elephants with records in this database: (detailed list)

1. ♀ Bozie born 1975
,
2. ♀ Maharani (Rani) born 1990-07-14
,
3. ♂ Spike (Ganesha) born 1981-07-02
,
4. ♀ Swarna born 1975
, (see detailed list).

Offspring

1. (M) 1986-08-11 -- † 2015-10-22 Calvin (Chanda) EEP id: 8612 SSP id: 147
2. (F) 1990-07-14 Maharani (Rani) SSP id: 307

Origin

Kamala was born wild 1975-09-00. and imported 1976

Orphaned and brought to Pinnawela elephant orphanage in Sri Lanka. Kamala, Swarna and a bull who died in 1991, Bandara, all arrived at the Calgary Zoo in May 1976 from the Sri Lanka National Zoo.

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Brent Van Hooft, Elephant Keeper Calgary Zoo
• Kathleen Hewitt, Calgary Zoo
• Elefanten-wiki on elefanten.wikia.com http://elefanten.wikia.com/wiki/Kamala (Google Translated version)

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: Smithsonian National Zoological Park
• More elephants from: United States
• More elephants that was born: 1975-09-00
• More elephants that was imported: 1976
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

External relevant links (Opens in new window)

• Kamala at Elewiki, a wiki collaboration on elefanten.wikia.com (In german) HTTP code: 301 it is valid
• Link to translated version with Google Translate

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