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Wild Asian elephants live to be about 60 years old. While female captive elephants are recorded to have lived beyond 60 years when kept in semi-natural surroundings, Asian elephants die at a much younger age in captivity; captive populations are declining due to a low birth and high death rate.
A bull elephant in musth, wild or otherwise, is extremely dangerous to humans, other elephants, and other species. Bull elephants in musth have killed keepers/mahouts, as well as other bull elephants, female elephants, and calves (the last usually inadvertently or accidentally in what is often called "herd infighting"). [13]
An expert on Asian elephants is sounding the alarm about "elephant sanctuaries" after a tourist was killed while visiting one in Thailand. Blanca Ojanguren García, 22, a law student at the ...
The pre-eminent threats to the Asian elephant today are habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation, which are driven by an expanding human population, and lead in turn to increasing conflicts between humans and elephants when elephants eat or trample crops. Hundreds of people and elephants are killed annually as a result of such conflicts. [12]
The trunks of African and Asian elephants differ in several ways, including the number and position of the “fingers” at the ends of the two species’ trunks. 4. Their Trunks Are Amazing and ...
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 ...
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] The total population of Asian elephants is estimated to be around 40,000–50,000, although this may be a loose estimate.
The Texas zoo said 34-year-old Asian elephant Shanti gave birth to 314-pound Kirby on November 15 at 3 p.m. CST. Shanti had been in labor for 19 hours and gave birth in the McNair Asian Elephant ...