Guruvayur Devaswom elephant camp in India

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Guruvayur Devaswom elephant camp
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Local name	Guruvayur Devaswom Aanathavalam (Punnathur Kota)
Type	temple
Address	Guruvayur
Place	Thrissur
State	Kerala
Country	India
Website	Website
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Owner

Zoological department
Elephant department
Head keepers of elephants
-: A K Radhakrishnan (chief mahout)

Elephant keepers
2023: Sarath Parippally -: Kothachira Subash

Record history
History of updates	2025-04-13: 2026-02-11:

Latest document update	2026-02-11 14:59:08
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Description

Guruvayur Devaswom elephant camp, located at Guruvayur, in Thrissur, Kerala, India .

Living elephants

At the Guruvayur Devaswom elephant camp lives 42 elephants with records in this database: (detail list)

♂ Achuthan born ~1973
♂ Akshay Krishnan born 1992?
♂ Appu born ±1975
♂ Balakrishnan born 1983
♂ Balaram
♂ Balu
♂ Chandrasekharan born 1979
♂ Chenthamarakshan
♂ Damodhara born 2002
♀ Devi born 1972
♂ Gopikrishnan (Gopeekrishnan) born 1974
♀ Gouri
♂ Indrasen born 1979
♂ Junior Kesavan born 1993
♂ Junior Lekshmanan born <1964
♂ Junior Madhavan born 1981
♂ Keerthi born 1997?
♂ Krishnan born 1970
♂ Kuttikrishnan
♂ Lakshmanan
♂ Mukundan born 1987
♂ Murali born 1984
♂ Nandan born 1979
♂ Narayankutty
♂ Parthan born 1995?
♂ Prakashan born 1969
♂ Radhakrishnan born 1962
♂ Rajasekharan born 1973
♂ Ramu born 1973
♂ Ravikrishnan
♀ Reshmi born <1983
♂ Sankara Narayan born 1980
♂ Sathyanarayanan born 1972
♂ Sidharthan (Siddarthan) born 1986
♂ Sreedharan born 1978
♂ Sreekrishnan born 1999?
♂ Sudeepan born 1977
♀ Umadevi born 1972
♂ Unnikkannan born 1979
♂ Valiya Vishnu
♂ Velayudhan
♂ Vinayakan

Casualties

1 casualties

2017-12-10: mahout Kothachira Subash fatal attack by Sreekrishnan. Sreekrishnan , which stormed through the temple premises, turned on its mahout and gored him to death. † Kothachira Subash Died 2017-12-10, Guruvajour temple.

Comments / picturesThe elephant stock at Punnathoor Kotta comprises six cow (female) elephants, two Makhna or mozha (tuskless males) and 54 bulls (males) or tuskers.

2021; There are 45 elephants at the Devaswom’s Anakotta.

2024-01-27: With the death of Kannan, the number of Guruvayoor elephants are down to 39.

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