Kamala

Kamala was a female Sri Lankan elephant who lived in Calgary Zoo in Canada and the National Zoological Park in the United States. Born in Sri Lanka, Kamala was orphaned as an infant and taken into the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage. She was bought by the Calgary Zoo and transported to Canada in 1976; the zoo hoped to use her and two other elephants they bought at from Pinnawala to establish their own herd. The breeding program began in the 1980s, and Kamala produced three calves, two of which survived past infancy. Her eldest, Calvin, was the first Sri Lankan elephant born in captivity outside Sri Lanka.