Chinna Thambi, the elephant belonging to Thadagam Valley reserve forests in Coimbatore district, earned a rare distinction of being the one and only wild elephant in South India to be caught twice and ...

STANDING UP FOR CHINNA THAMBI: People in Coimbatore attend a rally protesting against the state government’s decision to recapture Chinna Thambi COIMBATORE: Forest minister Dindigul C Sreenivasan on ...

It is as though a festival is in progress on a patch of forest at the Periyanayakkanpalayam range. Scooters and cars are parked haphazardly along a stretch as families arrive in droves, children in ...

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Chinna Thambi, once a notorious crop-raiding elephant in the Coimbatore region, is now a kumki who is on his first major assignment to chase away wild elephants from human habitats in the Kannivadi ...

Chinna Thambi grunts and I jump. For a moment, I forget about the mammoth wooden enclosure that separates us. It’s called a kraal, and is used to tame wild elephants. He has every reason to loathe us.

Coimbatore: Elephant experts have suggested relocating Chinna thambi to Mudumalai where the so-called another crop raider Vinayagan was released a month ago. Two wild elephants named as Vinayagan and ...

The forest officials in Tamil Nadu were literally taken aback on Tuesday as the kumki (an elephant specialised in training wild elephants) deputed to tame Chinna Thambi, a wild tusker, has been ...