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The Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), also known as the Asiatic elephant, is a species of elephant distributed throughout the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, from India in the west to Borneo in the east, and Nepal in the north to Sumatra in the south.
Burma (born October 1982) is an Asian elephant at Monarto Safari Park in South Australia. Born in Myanmar (then known as Burma), she lived in New Zealand's Auckland Zoo from 1990 to 2024. Another elephant, Kashin, accompanied her until 2009, when Kashin was euthanised. Burma was the only elephant in her enclosure until 2015, when the zoo added ...
Articles related to the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), a species of elephant distributed throughout the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, from India in the west to Borneo in the east, and Nepal in the north to Sumatra in the south. Three subspecies are recognised—E. m. maximus, E. m. indicus and E. m. sumatranus.
The Asian elephant can be found from western India to eastern Borneo in Southeast Asia. A total of three recognized Asian elephant subspecies exist: the indicus, found across mainland Asia, the ...
Asian Elephants are native to 13 countries across South Asia and Southeast Asia. They are considered endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature because of poaching, habitat ...
Isilo of Tembe Elephant Park was one of South Africa’s largest African elephants. Kongad Kuttisankaran, one of the few native elephants born in Kerala to have a height of more than 309 cm. Raja Gaj, bull elephant which lived in the Bardiya National Park, Nepal. He was considered to be one of the world's largest Asian elephants of modern times ...
When looking at an African elephant and an Asian elephant side-by-side, you can really tell the differences in their head shapes and tasks. African elephants generally have much larger tusks than ...
In 2020, the IUCN listed the Asian elephant as endangered due to the population declining by half over "the last three generations". [151] Asian elephants once ranged from Western to East Asia and south to Sumatra. [152] and Java. It is now extinct in these areas, [151] and the current range of Asian elephants is highly fragmented. [152]