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The Asian elephant can be found from western India to eastern Borneo in Southeast Asia. A total of three recognized Asian elephant subspecies exist: the indicus, found across mainland Asia, the ...
From fewer than 50,000 Asian elephants left in the wild, sadly 3,000 to 4,000 are held in chains here. In 2017, Planting Peace began rescuing Asian elephant s out of slavery. With a goal to save ...
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.
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 ...
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.
An African elephant’s ears are extremely large and billowing, while Asian elephant’s ears are smaller and look crumpled. An African elephant’s trunk is very different from an Asian elephant ...
Just like kids, animals love to play. Dok Gaew is an adolescent male elephant who lives at the Save Elephant Foundation (SEF) in Thailand. He was rescued in 2017 after he was orphaned shortly ...
Motola is a 45-year-old female Asian elephant in Thailand who stepped on a landmine in 1999, while working at a logging camp near the Burmese border. [1] The mine mangled her left front foot and leg, and her foot was amputated shortly after. The accident highlighted the dangers of mines that remain from various insurgencies.