unnamed (rogue)
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Ceylon Department of Civil Engineering in Sri Lanka

Biography

☨ ♂ unnamed (rogue)

Identification


Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Male ♂
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†1847
Death reason:	unknown: collapsed of exhaustion
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Ceylon Department of Civil Engineering, in Sri Lanka

Date of arrival

1847-00-00	Ceylon Department of Civil Engineering from Kurunegala forest

Record history
History of updates	2010-08-30

Latest document update	2020-11-04 19:14:50

† unnamed (rogue) is a dead Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1847 at Ceylon Department of Civil Engineering, in Sri Lanka, . Official death reason described as collapsed of exhaustion.

Origin

unnamed (rogue) was born wild .

Comments / pictures

Died during training process.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). unnamed (rogue), Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Ceylon Department of Civil Engineering in Sri Lanka. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 30 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=5978. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Page 123-140, The Wild Elephants and the Method of Capturing and Taming it in Ceylon, by J. Emerson Tennent

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