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Common name Scientific name authority Preferred habitat IUCN status Range Family Pteropodidae: Old World fruit bats: Giant golden-crowned flying fox: Acerodon jubatus Eschscholtz, 1831: Forest EN: Palawan fruit bat: Acerodon leucotis Sanborn, 1950: Forest VU: Mindanao pygmy fruit bat: Alionycteris paucidentata Kock, 1969: Forest LC: Lesser ...
Mali was a female Asian elephant (Elephas maximus). [1] Her exact birth date is unknown. [b] She was moved into the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage after her mother died of natural causes. [6] The Sri Lankan government gifted the elephant to then Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos. [7] The elephant was presented at Malacañang Palace. [6]
The scientific name Elephas was proposed by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 who described the genus and an elephant from Ceylon. [12] The genus is assigned to the proboscidean family Elephantidae and is made up of one living and seven extinct species: [13] Elephas maximus – Asian elephant [1] Elephas maximus indicus – Indian elephant
Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures Syrian elephant: Elephas maximus asurus: Mesopotamia: Archaeological evidence and historical records imply an extinction caused by hunting and deforestation in the 8th century BCE, with war elephants from the 3rd century BCE onward being imports from South Asia.
Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's elephant whose name is the origin of the word jumbo (meaning "very large" or "oversized"). The African elephant was given the name Jumbo by zookeepers at the London Zoo. The name was most likely derived from the Swahili word jumbe meaning "chief". Lallah Rookh, elephant with Dan Rice's circus.
The word elephant is derived from the Latin word elephas (genitive elephantis) ' elephant ', which is the Latinised form of the ancient Greek ἐλέφας (elephas) (genitive ἐλέφαντος (elephantos, [1])) probably from a non-Indo-European language, likely Phoenician. [2]
Proboscidea (/ ˌ p r oʊ b ə ˈ s ɪ d i ə /; from Latin proboscis, from Ancient Greek προβοσκίς (proboskís) 'elephant's trunk') is a taxonomic order of afrotherian mammals containing one living family (Elephantidae) and several extinct families.
Elephas beyeri is an extinct species of dwarf elephant known from the Middle Pleistocene. [1] It was named after the anthropologist H. Otley Beyer . [ 2 ] The type specimen, a partial molar tooth, was discovered on Cabarruyan Island in the Philippines but has since been lost.