Skip to content
Sri Lanka's wildlife encyclopedia
Wild elephant · Udawalawe

Rambo

රැම්බෝ ரம்போ

Rambo
Sumudusoyza007 · CC BY-SA 4.0
A photo of a Sri Lankan Elephant — not this animal

Rambo is a famous wild bull of Udawalawe National Park who for about two decades has stood behind the electric fence on the reservoir bund along the Thanamalwila road, begging passing vehicles for fruit and sugarcane. He has always respected the fence and never tried to break out; when the roadside was blocked he swam across the reservoir edge to reach it. In 2013 he was found ill with a gunshot wound and recovered after treatment by DWC vet Dr Vijitha Perera. Signboards asking people not to feed him were put up, but feeding continued.

Sources

  1. Sri Lanka elephant lives up to his Rambo name — eTurboNews, 3 Jun 2013
  2. Rambo goes on an amorous walk — Daily FT, 28 Jun 2014
  3. Rambo, hale and hearty at Uda Walawe — Daily FT, 31 Jan 2015
  4. Another elephantine disaster waiting to happen? — Daily Mirror (via PressReader), 14 Jan 2019