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The Borneo elephant, also called the Bornean elephant or the Borneo pygmy elephant, is a subspecies of Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) that inhabits northeastern Borneo, in Indonesia and Malaysia. Its origin remains the subject of debate.
The critically endangered Bornean orangutan, a great ape endemic to Borneo, in Tanjung Puting Borneo elephant. The wildlife of this ecoregion consists of a large number of forest animals ranging from the world's smallest squirrel, the least pygmy squirrel, to the largest land mammal in Asia, the Asian elephant.
35 elephants suddenly dropped dead in 2020, and no one could explain why, yet these new findings may just be the answer
Borneo has own a wide variety of bird species. The geological history of Borneo is a major factor: long isolation of the island, broken during the last Ice age, when Borneo was connected to the continent of Asia, led to a combination of Asian and native species. There are about 420 species of birds and 37 are endemic to Borneo [4] [5]
An aerial view shows endangered African elephants in Botswana’s Okavango Dela. The delta was also where the dead elephants were first spotted in 2020. The mass die-off of hundreds of the animals ...
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. Three subspecies are recognised—E. m. maximus, E. m. indicus and E. m. sumatranus.
An international conservation organization has listed African elephants as critically endangered after a sharp population decline.
Animals such as the Asian elephant have been forced out of their habitat due to its loss, often leading them to starve. [5] Once so common that complaints existed of them trampling people's gardens, [1] Sumatran rhinoceroses became extinct in Malaysia in 2019. [5] [22] Hornbills are steadily declining in numbers. [23]