Wikipedia's article on the temple elephant, consulted 2026-08-11.
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Wikipedia's article on the temple elephant, consulted 2026-08-11, the lower tier reflecting a crowd sourced, not independently peer reviewed encyclopedia entry, useful for a general overview of the practice and the controversy around it. NotesWikipedia's article on the temple elephant, consulted 2026-08-11. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; used here for the 2009 welfare study of 267 captive temple elephants and the 2023 onward animatronic elephant initiative, dated welfare and legal facts distinct from the atlas's existing Encyclopaedia Britannica citation.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_elephant
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (14 claims)
This source backs 14 claims across the atlas. As facts: 13 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Practices, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 general references.
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