kozhikamuthi elephant camp

Vijayalakshmi, 71, the second oldest elephant at the kozhikamuthi elephant camp in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR), died on Wednesday.The female elephant was not taking fodder properly for the last 20 days due to digestive diseases, a forest department official said.

The forest department had tried to reunite the abandoned calf with an elephant herd for more than ten days, but the attempt did not yield any fruitful results.

Suyambu, a kumki (trained elephant) housed at the kozhikamuthi elephant camp in Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR), attacked its mahout on Thursday.The elephant, which was chained as it was in musth, attacked Prasath, 48, while he was attempting to feed it, a forest department official said.

The forest department celebrated ‘Elephant Pongal’ at Kozhikamuthi and Varakaliyar elephant camps in the Anaimalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) on Saturday.All the 24 captive elephants at Kozhikamuthi camp and the three at Varakaliyar camp were decked up for the day by garlanding them.

After nine lions at the Arignar Anna ZoologicalParkin Vandalur on Chennai’s outskirts were found infected with coronavirus, forest minister K Ramachandran instructed forest officials to conduct virus test for the tamed elephants at Theppakadu camp in Mudumalali Tiger Reserve (MTR) and Kozhikamuthy camp in Top Slip in Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR).

While bulls were rearing at the arena amidst tamers in Palamedu and Alanganallur jallikattu, the forest department of Coimbatore division celebrated ‘Elephant Pongal’ near Top Slip in the Anaimalai Tiger Reserve on Friday.

The forest department has begun treatment for a 72-year-old female elephant named 'Vijayalakshmi' at the kozhikamuthi elephant camp near Topslip in Anaimalai Tiger Reserve (ATR). The elephant has been suffering from digestive ailments for over 10 days and eye defects.

The injured female elephant calf that was rescued from Ulandy forest range in the Anaimalai Tiger Reserve on Monday died at kozhikamuthi elephant camp in the early hours of Thursday, without responding to treatment.

Swab samples were taken for Covid tests from 56 captive elephants housed at the Theppakadu elephant camp in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) and the Kozhikamuthy elephant camp at Topslip in Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) on Tuesday.

Twenty-three-year-old kumki (trained elephant) Suyambu and 12-year-old tusker Ashok were kept in kraals (wooden enclosures) at Varakaliyar elephant camp near Topslip on Sunday for not obeying their new mahouts.

Forest officials are planning to relocate Pari, a Kumki elephants from Chadivayal elephant camp due to aggressive behavior and hostility towards Sujay, another kumki stationed at the camp.