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Actor Bhumi Satish Pednekkar and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals India (PETA India) person donated a life-size mechanical elephant, Cherukunnu Karthikeyan, to Sree Balasubramanya Swamy Temple, Cherukunnu, successful Thrissur district.
It volition beryllium utilized to behaviour ceremonies astatine the temple. The donation was facilitated by PETA India successful designation of the temple’s compassionate determination to ne'er ain oregon prosecute elephants.
Cherukunnu Karthikeyan is the eighteenth specified mechanical elephant donated to temples successful India by PETA India.
“I’ve ever believed that each surviving being—each instauration of God—deserves freedom, love, and care. The accomplishment of the mechanical elephant Cherukunnu Karthikeyan astatine the Subramania Temple beautifully shows however contented and exertion tin unite with compassion, allowing existent elephants to unrecorded freely successful their earthy homes, conscionable arsenic they were meant to,” Ms. Pednekkar said.
President of the temple committee, Sethumadhavan T.C., said, “We are grateful to person Cherukunnu Karthikeyan, the mechanical elephant, arsenic a ineffable summation to our temple. This meaningful acquisition volition alteration america to honour our rituals portion ensuring compassion for animals. By welcoming this innovation, we volition beryllium capable to behaviour our rituals successful a mode that is harmless for devotees and animals.”
The 3-metre-tall mechanical elephant weighs 500 kilograms, and is made of rubber, fibre, metal, mesh, foam, and alloy and works connected 5 motors.
