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About half of the global zoo elephant population is kept in European zoos, where they have less than half (18.9 years) the median life span of conspecifics (41.6 years) in protected populations in range countries. This discrepancy is clearest in Asian elephants: infant mortality is more than two to three times that seen in Burmese timber camps ...
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.
It is the type subspecies of the Asian elephant and was first described by Carl Linnaeus under the binomial Elephas maximus in 1758. [1] The Sri Lankan elephant population is now largely restricted to the dry zone in the north, east and southeast of Sri Lanka.
Indian elephant populations are threatened due to habitat loss. Pictured is an elephant foraging on a roadside. Since 1986, the Asian elephant has been listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List as the wild population has declined by at least 50% over the last three elephant generations. [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] Extant in South Asia and Southeast Asia. [3] Indian elephant: Elephas maximus ...
The Fort Worth Zoo welcomed its first Asian elephant 100 years ago. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail ...
Mali, a female Asian elephant, an endangered species, gave birth to a 220-pound male calf in the early morning hours on Oct. 24, according to a news release from the zoo. Ten hours later, to the ...
Because mammoth DNA is a 99.6 percent match to the DNA of the Asian elephant, Colossal believes that gene editing can eventually create an embryo of a woolly mammoth. The eventual goal is to ...