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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.
Borneo elephant is endemic for the island. The historical records of European association with Borneo and its fauna were compiled by Lord Medway that was published in 1977 by the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. There are 288 species of terrestrial mammals in Borneo which is dominated by the chiroptera (102 species of bats) and ...
Marbled cats and leopard cats are smaller predators. Kinabalu ferret-badgers, Kinabalu black shrews, Hose's palm civets, and Brooke's tree squirrels are endemic to the mountains of Borneo. [2] Other small mammals include mongooses and giant rats. [1] 11,300 orangutans are found in East Malaysia. [5]
The magnificent elephant, the most enormous land animal in the world, captivates its observers with its awe-inspiring and distinguishable features. Most known for their sheer size, elephants also ...
The lowland tropical rainforest is home to many birds and mammals. It is the only place where the enigmatic spectacled flowerpecker has been recorded. Bornean orangutans, Müller's Bornean gibbons, and other primates, including Horsfield's tarsier, as well as deer, wild cats and the rare Bornean pygmy elephant may be seen.
Some suggest they have an advanced chemical or scent memory rather than the sight memory humans rely on. Faces. Elephant herds are made of relatives. Female elephants stay with the herd for their ...
The Borneo elephant, an Asian elephant subspecies. Sundaland harbours 381 mammal species, [11] of which 173 are endemic to this region. [12] Three of orangutan species, Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus), Sumatran orangutan (P. abelii) and Tapanuli orangutan (P. tapanuliensis) are listed in the IUCN red lists. [13] [14] [15]
Elephants are majestic, smart, and warm animals that people continue to take advantage of. In Thailand, due to the tourism and logging industry, the elephant population has severely dropped, and ...