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Animal Welfare Board of India
The Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI), headquartered at Ballabhgarh in Haryana state, is a statutory advisory body advising the Government of India's Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
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Asian elephant
The Asian elephant, or Asiatic elephant (Elephas maximus), is the only living species of the genus Elephas and is distributed in Southeast Asia, from India and Nepal in the west to Borneo in the south.
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Ayurveda
Ayurveda is a system of medicine with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent.
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Bell
A bell is a directly struck idiophone percussion instrument.
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Caparison
A caparison is a cloth covering laid over a horse or other animal for protection and decoration.
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Coconut
The coconut tree (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the family Arecaceae (palm family) and the only species of the genus Cocos.
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Elephant crushing
Elephant crushing, or a training crush is a method by which wild elephants can be tamed for domestication, using restriction in a cage, sometimes with the use of corporal punishment or negative reinforcement.
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Endangered species
An endangered species is a species which has been categorized as very likely to become extinct.
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Gold
Gold is a chemical element with symbol Au (from aurum) and atomic number 79, making it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally.
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Government of Kerala
The Government of Kerala headquartered at Thiruvananthapuram is a democratically elected body that governs the Indian State of Kerala.
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Guruvayur Keshavan
Gajarajan Guruvayur Keshavan (died 2 December 1976) is perhaps the most famous and celebrated temple elephant in Kerala, India.
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Guruvayur Temple
Guruvayur Sri Krishna Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to the Hindu god Guruvayurappan (a four-armed affiliation of the Hindus god Vishnu), located in the town of Guruvayur in Kerala, India.
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Headgear
Headgear, headwear or headdress is the name given to any element of clothing which is worn on one's head.
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Husk
Husk (or hull) in botany is the outer shell or coating of a seed.
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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Indian elephant
The Indian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus) is one of three recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant and native to mainland Asia.
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International Union for Conservation of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
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IUCN Red List
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List), founded in 1964, has evolved to become the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species.
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Kerala
Kerala is a state in South India on the Malabar Coast.
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Kingdom of Cochin
Kingdom of Cochin (also known as Perumpadappu Swaroopam, Mada-rajyam, or Kuru Swaroopam; Kocci or Perumpaṭappu) was a late medieval Hindu kingdom and later princely state on the Malabar Coast, South India.
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Kolakolli
Kolakolli (Murder Murderer, Master Executioner) or Chakkamadan (Jack fruit Freak) was an Indian rogue elephant active in the Peppara Wildlife Sanctuary near Thiruvananthapuram.
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Konni, Kerala
Konni is a major town and a Taluk headquarters in Pathanamthitta district, Kerala, India.
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Koodalmanikyam Temple
Koodalmanikyam Temple or Kudal Manikkam Temple / Koodalmanikkam Temple is a Hindu temple which is situated in Manavalassery village, Irinjalakuda, Trissur district, Kerala state, India.
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Kottarathil Sankunni
Kottarathil Sankunni (real name: Vasudevan) was a well-known author of Malayalam literature, born on 23 March 1855 in Kottayam, Travancore.
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List of Hindu temples in Kerala
This is a list of Hindu temples in Kerala ordered by district.
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Liz Jones
Elizabeth Ann Jones (born 5 September 1958) is a British journalist.
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Mahout
A mahout is an elephant rider, trainer, or keeper.
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Malayalam
Malayalam is a Dravidian language spoken across the Indian state of Kerala by the Malayali people and it is one of 22 scheduled languages of India.
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Mathrubhumi
Mathrubhumi is a Malayalam newspaper that is published from Kerala, India.
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Monsoon
Monsoon is traditionally defined as a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation, but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with the asymmetric heating of land and sea.
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Musth
Musth or must is a periodic condition in bull (male) elephants, characterized by highly aggressive behavior and accompanied by a large rise in reproductive hormones.
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Necklace
A necklace is an article of jewelry that is worn around the neck.
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Nenmara Vallanghy Vela
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Pampadi Rajan
Pampadi Rajan (പാമ്പാടി രാജൻ; also known as Kottayam Rajan) also written as Pambadi Rajan is one of the tallest elephants in Kerala.
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Panchari melam
Panchari Melam is a percussion ensemble, performed during temple festivals in Kerala, India.
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Plating
Plating is a surface covering in which a metal is deposited on a conductive surface.
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Prem Panicker
Prem Panicker is an Indian cricket journalist.
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Punnathurkotta
Punnathurkotta is a fort and former palace located in Kottapadi, about 2 km from the Guruvayoor Sree Krishna Temple, in Thrissur District of Kerala State in South India.
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Rejuvenation (aging)
Rejuvenation is a medical discipline focused on the practical reversal of the aging process.
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Sanskrit
Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism; and a former literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval India.
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Silver
Silver is a chemical element with symbol Ag (from the Latin argentum, derived from the Proto-Indo-European ''h₂erǵ'': "shiny" or "white") and atomic number 47.
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Subspecies
In biological classification, the term subspecies refers to a unity of populations of a species living in a subdivision of the species’s global range and varies from other populations of the same species by morphological characteristics.
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Temple elephant
Temple elephants are a type of captive elephant.
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Thechikottukavu Ramachandran
Thechikottukavu Ramachandran (born 1964) is an elephant owned by Thrissur Thechikkottukavu Peramangalthu Devaswom, a temple in Kerala.
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Thrissur district
Thrissur (also Trichur, Trissur) is a revenue district of Kerala situated in the central part of that state.
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Thrissur Pooram
Thrissur Pooram is an annual Hindu temple festival held in Kerala, India.
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Travancore
The Kingdom of Travancore was an Indian kingdom from 1729 until 1949.
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Western Ghats
Western Ghats also known as Sahyadri (Benevolent Mountains) is a mountain range that runs parallel to the western coast of the Indian peninsula, located entirely in India.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephants_in_Kerala_culture