The exact reasons remain murky - as does the question of whether Kaavan was really an orphan - but we know that at some point in 1985, the young elephant ended up at a zoo in Islamabad.
An overweight elephant, once dubbed the world's loneliest ... from Pakistan to Cambodia As a key attraction at Marghazar Zoo in Islamabad, Kaavan entertained the crowds by raising his trunk ...
The plight of Kaavan, an overweight, 35-year-old bull elephant has drawn international condemnation and highlighted the woeful state of Islamabad's zoo, where conditions are so bad a judge in May ...