This article doesn't make sense.

SaddlePeak has no 'natural' population of elephants. Elephants were introduced
to the islands and have become very destructive in both North Andaman and on
Interview Island.
There is no zoo there.
Barter what? Are more potentialy invasive species going to be introduced?

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--- On Tue, 12/5/09, Pankaj Sekhsaria <psekhsaria@...> wrote:

From: Pankaj Sekhsaria <psekhsaria@...>
Subject: [andamanicobar] Andaman jumbos at Vandalur for rest
To: "Andamanicobar" <andamanicobar@...>,
nathistory-india@...
Date: Tuesday, 12 May, 2009, 11:47 AM

















Andaman jumbos at Vandalur for rest

12 May 2009, 0310 hrs IST, D Madhavan, TNN



http://timesofindia .indiatimes. com/Chennai/ Andaman-jumbos- at-Vandalur-
for-rest/ articleshow/ 4511369.cms



CHENNAI: The Arignar Anna Zoological Park at Vandalur on the city

ourskirts had four guests on Sunday evening. Trundling into the

enclosure were

four female elephants, two adults aged seven years and two young ones

aged two years, from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.



Originally meant to be transported to a zoo in Madhya Pradesh, the

elephants will be in Vandalur for an interregnum. According to sources,

the four elephants, which come from the Saddle Peak National Park in

Andaman district, are tired because of the journey by ship from the

island to the mainland and need to regain strength before proceeding to

the Madhya Pradesh zoo, which appears to be facing a bureaucratic delay

in letting the elephants in.



"These elephants will be rested here until the Madhya Pradesh zoo

decides to take them in. No time frame has been fixed so far," P L

Anathaswamy, zoo director and chief conservator of forests, told TOI.



The pachyderms are now being treated at the veterinary hospital on the

zoo premises for and their health is continuously being monitored by

veterinarians.



Vandalur zoo already has five elephants -- nine-year-old Vikram,

one-and-a-half- year-old Chellam, one-year-old Abinaya, 24-year-old

Ashwini and 26-year-old Pari. The last two were brought from Mudumalai

in the Nilgiris last year for the jumbo safari.



The four guests are kept separately, at the rescue centre near the

hospital, as the zoo authorities are not sure how they would mingle with

the old residents. It would also be difficult for the workers to manage

all the elephants in the same enclosure.



Many raised doubts why elephants were brought from the island to the

mainland which already has a large number of elephants. Zoo officials

said it could be because the Saddle Peak National Park may be seeing an

increase in population of elephants, making it difficult for the

authorities to manage them. The officials are working out a barter, and

the Saddle Park may get some rare species not found in the island

territory, from the Madhya Pradesh wildlife authorities. "Barter system

is common between zoos. However, the kind of exchange will be known only

to the respective parties," a Vandalur zoo official said.



madhavan.d@timesgro up.com



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