On their first day out of the palace premises after checking in on Wednesday, the first batch of 9 elephants were subjected to a weight check to ascertain their general health condition on Thursday.
Elephant Arjuna weighed the heaviest of the them all and was a good 5,725 kg followed by Gopalswamy who weighed 5,240 kg. The elephants were weighed on a weigh bridge meant to measure load carried by heavy vehicles and Dhananjaya scaled 4,800 kg. The weight of the elephant tends to match with their overall size though Abhimanyu who is among the strongest and takes part in all tiger combing operations was less ’obese’ and seemed more ’muscular’ at 4,770 kg. The other male elephants in the order of their weight were Mahindra (4,260 kg) and Bheema (3,950 kg).
The female elephants were relatively ’slim’ compared to their male couterparts and while Kaveri weighed 3,110 kg, Chaitra was 3,080 kg and Lakshmi was a ‘’light weight’’ compared to other elephants in the team and measured 2,920 kg.
