Sudu Aliya (‘white elephant’) is a female white elephant of Yala, the first recorded in Sri Lanka and described by researchers as the only one known living free in the wild. She was first seen as a newborn at Heen Wewa in Yala Block I in 1993, and was later seen at Diganwala, outside the park, and at Mahaseelawa Wewa and Kotabendi Wewa in 2012. She is light tan with white body hair and a black tail tuft, so she is not a full albino; chena farmers called her ‘Cheena Aliya’, and a Yala herd, the Sudu Aliya group, is named after her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sudu Aliya (‘white elephant’) is a female white elephant of Yala, the first recorded in Sri Lanka and described by researchers as the only one known living free in the wild. She was first seen as a newborn at Heen Wewa in Yala Block I in 1993, and was later seen at Diganwala, outside the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-14364","sw_named","type-sw_named","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sw_named\/14364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sw_named"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/sw_named"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sw_named\/14364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}