A recent video shared by PETA featured one such robot elephant from a temple in Kerala. At first glance, it looked like a regular temple elephant gracefully swaying its trunk during festivities.

This innovative initiative provides a cruelty-free alternative for temple rituals, addressing the growing concerns over captive elephant mistreatment and festival-related accidents. With Kerala ...

Mechanical elephants are being utilised in Kerala temples to replace real ones, promoting a cruelty-free alternative ...

Days after a temple cat from China created wave on social media, a temple elephant from Tamil Nadu has grabbed eyeballs. Sengamalam, the beloved elephant of Sri Vidya Rajagopalaswamy Temple in ...

Lakshmi, the elephant attached to the Manakula Vinayakar temple, left for the 48-day rejuvenation camp at Thekkampatti, near Mettupalayam on Sunday. The elephant was brought to the temple in the ...

Kombara Kannan, a three-metre-tall mechanical elephant weighing 800 kilograms will be unveiled at Kombara Sree Krishna Swami Temple, Thrissur, by Anoushka Shankar and PETA India. Satish Vimalan ...

Davanagere: The ownership of elephants by religious organizations has always been a contentious subject. However, Shri Umamaheshwara Veerabhadreshwara Temple at Shilamatha, a 1,200-year-old ...

a mechanical elephant, join us." Other Hree Kerala temples where these types of mechanical temples are in use are - 'Irinjadappilly Raman' at the Irinjadappilly Sree Krishna Temple in Thrissur ...

Prakash was instrumental in bringing the robot elephant to the temple. It was donated by the ... with others in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia. The species is endangered, according to the ...

In a thoughtful move advocating for animal welfare, actor Suniel Shetty, along with NGOs PETA India and CUPA, donated a life-size mechanical elephant named Umamaheshwara to the Shri Umamaheshwara ...