TN: Tourists throng Mudumalai to see baby jumbo from Oscar-winning ‘Elephant Whisperers’ –Diarytimes
A large number of tourists visited Mudumalai Theppakadu elephant camp to catch a glimpse of the baby elephant made famous by the Indian documentary film ‘Elephant Whisperers’, which won an Oscar in the ‘Best Documentary Short Film’ category on Monday.
The documentary competed for the honour with fellow nominees ‘Haul Out,’ ‘How Do You Measure A Year?’ ‘The Martha Mitchell Effect,’ and ‘Stranger At The Gate’.
The film’s plot revolves around a family, which adopts two orphan baby elephants in Tamil Nadu’s Mudumalai Tiger Reserve.
Mudumalai National Park is a national park in the Nilgiri Mountains in Tamil Nadu, southern India.
It covers 321 km (124 sq mi) at an elevation range of 850–1,250 m (2,790–4,100 ft) in the Nilgiri District and shares boundaries with the states of Karnataka and Kerala.
A part of this area has been protected since 1940. The national park has been part of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve since 1986 and was declared a tiger reserve together with a buffer zone of 367.59 km2 (141.93 sq mi) in 2007.
It receives an annual rainfall of about 1,420 mm (56 in) and harbors tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests with 498 plant species, at least 266 bird species, 18 carnivores and 10 herbivore species. It is drained by the Moyar River and several tributaries, which harbor 38 fish species.
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