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There are currently around 415,000 African elephants in the world (African bush and African forest combined), but there are only approximately 40,000 to 50,000 Asian elephants left.
Two Asian elephant calves playing in a sanctuary in Laos. Female Asian elephants sexually mature around the age of 10~15 and keep growing until 30, while males fully mature at more than the age of 25, and constantly grow throughout their life. [79] [80] Average elephant life expectancy is approximately 60 years. [8]
Sadly, while an estimated 100,000 Asian elephants existed at the beginning of the 20th century, there are fewer than 50,000 Asian elephants left today. While they once roamed freely across Asia ...
The elephant found in Thailand is the Indian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus), a subspecies of the Asian elephant. In the early-20th century there were an estimated 100,000 captive elephants in Thailand. [3] In mid-2007 there were an estimated 3,456 captive elephants left in Thailand and roughly a thousand wild elephants. By 2017 the number ...
The Sumatran elephant (Elephas maximus sumatranus) is one of three recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant, and native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra.In 2011, IUCN upgraded the conservation status of the Sumatran elephant from endangered to critically endangered in its Red List as the population had declined by at least 80% during the past three generations, estimated to be about 75 ...
There are three types of elephants: the African forest elephant, the Asian elephant, and the African savanna (or bush) elephant.Elephants in the African savanna are larger than those in the ...
In March 2020, a group of 14 Asian elephants left their habitat in Pu'er City in the southeastern province of Yunnan, China. [1] [2] [3] The elephants were reported as far south as Menghai County, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture. [4] After 17 months, they returned to their original sanctuary after a journey of 1300 km in early August 2021.
African forest elephant: Loxodonta cyclotis: 140,000 [2] CR [2] [2] Found primarily in the Congo Basin rainforest biome and ecoregions with remnant populations in the W-Arly-Pendjari Complex, Guinean Forests of West Africa and one or more islands in the southern Niger Delta. [2] Asian elephant: Elephas maximus: 50,000 [3] EN [3] [3]