Elephants are mammals and the largest land animals alive today.The elephant's gestation period is 22 months, the longest of any land animal. At birth it is common for an elephant calf to weigh 120 Kg (265 ). An elephant may live as long as 70 years, sometimes longer. The largest elephant ever recorded was shot in Angola in 1956. This male weighed about 12,000 kg (26,400 lb), with a shoulder height of 4.2 m (13.8 ft), a metre (3 ft 4 in) taller than the average male African elephant.
The Asian elephant is smaller than the African. It has smaller ears, and typically, only the males have large external tusks.
The world population of Asian elephants – also called Indian Elephants or Elephas maximus – is estimated to be around 60,000, about a tenth of the number of African elephants.
Kerala Elephants
Almost all of the festivals in Kerala include at least one richly caparisoned elephant. Elephants carry the deity during annual festival processions and ceremonial circambulations in the temples. The temple elephants are decorated with gold plated caparisons (nettipattom), bells, and necklaces. People mounted on the elephants hold tinseled silk parasols (muthukuda) up high, swaying white tufts (venchamaram) and peacock feather fans (aalavattom) to the rhythm of the orchestra ( Panchavadhyam )
Most famous Kerala`s Elephants are Thechikkotukavu Ramachandran , Pampadi Rajan, Kuttankullangara Arjun, Ramdas, Nannu Ezhuthachan, Sreenivasan, Shiva Sankaran, Piturkovil Ganapathi & Vinayakan
The Asian elephant is smaller than the African. It has smaller ears, and typically, only the males have large external tusks.
The world population of Asian elephants – also called Indian Elephants or Elephas maximus – is estimated to be around 60,000, about a tenth of the number of African elephants.
Kerala Elephants
Almost all of the festivals in Kerala include at least one richly caparisoned elephant. Elephants carry the deity during annual festival processions and ceremonial circambulations in the temples. The temple elephants are decorated with gold plated caparisons (nettipattom), bells, and necklaces. People mounted on the elephants hold tinseled silk parasols (muthukuda) up high, swaying white tufts (venchamaram) and peacock feather fans (aalavattom) to the rhythm of the orchestra ( Panchavadhyam )
Most famous Kerala`s Elephants are Thechikkotukavu Ramachandran , Pampadi Rajan, Kuttankullangara Arjun, Ramdas, Nannu Ezhuthachan, Sreenivasan, Shiva Sankaran, Piturkovil Ganapathi & Vinayakan
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