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

Location

Nandi is a living Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) , located at the Pinnawala elephant orphanage, in Sri Lanka.

Nandi arrived in 2011-00-00 to the Pinnawala elephant orphanage, Nandi lives together with 69 other elephants at the Pinnawala elephant orphanage:

1. 1. ♀ Amali born 1994-04-16
2. 2. ♀ Anuradhika born 1993-11-15
3. 3. ♀ Anusha
4. 4. ♂ Asela born 2007?
5. 5. ♀ Ashokamala born 1998-08-07
6. 6. ♀ Bharathi born 2007
7. 7. ⚪ Binuki born 2011
8. 8. ♂ Buwaneka born 1999-12-07
9. 9. ♂ Charaka born 2006-00-00
10. 10. ♀ Dinuda born 2009-05-24
11. 11. ⚪ Diula
12. 12. ⚪ Elvina born 2011
13. 13. ♂ Haritha
14. 14. ♂ Isira born 2011
15. 15. ♂ Jadura born 1966?
16. 16. ♂ Jayathu
17. 17. ♂ Kadol born 2011
18. 18. ♀ Kamani
19. 19. ♂ Kanaka born 2009-05-24
20. 20. ♂ Kandula III (Bibile)
21. 21. ♀ Kiriya III (Kira)
22. 22. ♀ Komali (Komalee) born 1971
23. 23. ♂ Kora Aliya
24. 24. ♀ Kumari born 1965
25. 25. ♀ Mahaweli (Mahavali) born 1981
26. 26. ♀ Mathali (Mathalee) born 1970
27. 27. ♀ Mayuri born 1983
28. 28. ♂ Meega
29. 29. ♀ Meena
30. 30. ♀ Menika born 1989-08-14
31. 31. ♀ Menika II
32. 32. ♂ Nandimithra born 1995-09-27
33. 33. ♂ Neela born 1964
34. 34. ♀ Nikini II
35. 35. ♀ Ninja born 1985
36. 36. ♀ Noni
37. 37. ♀ Pali born 2003
38. 38. ♂ Pandu born 2005-08-00
39. 39. ♀ Punchi
40. 40. ♀ Ramiya
41. 41. ♀ Randivi
42. 42. ♂ Rangiri born 1989-08-16
43. 43. ♀ Rejina born 1982
44. 44. ♀ Sama
45. 45. ♀ Sama I born 1987-12-18
46. 46. ♂ Sampath
47. 47. ♀ Sandalee (Sandali)
48. 48. ♀ Sapumali born 1997
49. 49. ♀ Shanthi
50. 50. ♀ Shermi
51. 51. ♀ Sukumali born 1984-07-05
52. 52. ♀ Surangie
53. 53. ♂ Suranimala
54. 54. ♀ Thammenna
55. 55. ♀ Thilaka
56. 56. ⚪ Thilamalai
57. 57. ⚪ unknown born 2011
58. 58. ⚪ unknown born 2011
59. 59. ⚪ unknown born 2011
60. 60. ⚪ unknown born 2010
61. 61. ⚪ unknown
62. 62. ⚪ unknown born 2011
63. 63. ♂ Unnamed born 2011-07-16
64. 64. ⚪ unnamed born 2021-09-11
65. 65. ⚪ Unnamed born 2011-02-17
66. 66. ♂ unnamed (twin) born 2021-08-31
67. 67. ♂ unnamed (twin) born 2021-08-31
68. 68. ♀ Uthpala born 1999-08-06
69. 69. ♂ Wasamba born 1999-02-09

Origin

Nandi was born captive-born 2011 at Pinnawala elephant orphanage.

2016: It was in 2016, when the then New Zealand Prime Minister John Key visited Sri Lanka, that President Sirisena had announced that he would gift to New Zealand the baby elephant Nandi kept in the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage. But opposition to this rose both in Sri Lanka and in New Zealand. The grounds were similar.

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2012/01/08/new22.asp
  
• https://bdnews24.com/wildlife/2017/04/05/sri-lankan-court-case-against-gifting-elephant-to-new-zealand-shifts-focus-to-conservation
  
• http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2016/09/elephant-nandi-stuck-in-sri-lanka.html
  

Relevant links

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: Pinnawala elephant orphanage
• More elephants from: Sri Lanka
• More elephants that was born: 2011
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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• elephant-news.com
• Asianelephant.net
• Billboard
• Buckles Blog
• circushistory.org
• Elephant_Commentator
• Elefanten-Fotolexikon.eu
• elefanten.wikia
• Google Internet search
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