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The Asian elephant became a siege engine, a mount in war, a status symbol, a beast of burden, and an elevated platform for hunting during historical times in South Asia. [137] Ganesha on his vahana mūṣaka the rat, c. 1820. Asian elephants have been captured from the wild and tamed for use by humans.
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.
Burma (born 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, with the elephant Kashin until she was euthanised in 2009. From this time she was the only elephant in her enclosure until a female elephant named Anjalee arrived in ...
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 ...
Articles related to the Elephas, one of two surviving genera in the family of elephants, Elephantidae, with one surviving species, the Asian elephant, Elephas maximus. Several extinct species have been identified as belonging to the genus, extending back to the Pliocene or possibly the late Miocene.
On Nov. 1, the zoo’s elderly Asian elephant, Kamala, was euthanized. This comes after she was diagnosed […] Asian elephant Kamala dies at Smithsonian’s National Zoo
Many of the carnivores and larger mammals are restricted in their distribution to forests in protected areas, while others live within cities in the close proximity of humans. They range in size from the Eurasian pygmy shrew (Sorex minutus) to the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus).
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 ...