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Sinha Raja — Polwatte temple | mahoot

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Sinha Raja

Polwatte temple · Sri Lanka

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Life history

Birth place: in Sri Lanka unspecified location
Death reason: accident: hit by lightning
Origin: Wild-caught
Arrived: 2002-02-07

At this facility

Polwatte temple

Sri Lanka · Temple

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Transfer history

2002-02-07
Polwatte temple
from Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage
Sri Lanka unspecified location
from Sri Lanka unspecified location

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Data from elephant.se (Dan A. J. Koehl), CC BY 4.0. Reformatted for search.