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George Peress Sanderson (1848– 5 May 1892, Madras [1]) was a British naturalist who worked in the public works department in the princely state of Mysore.He began a system for capturing wild elephants that were destructive to agriculture so as to use them in captivity.
with Timothy C. Rodwell: An elephant's life: an intimate portrait from Africa, Lyons Press, 2012; with Donna M. Jackson and Timothy C. Rodwell: The elephant scientist, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2011; The elephant's secret sense : the hidden life of the wild herds of Africa, Free Press, New York, 2007
Elephantidae is a family of large, herbivorous proboscidean mammals collectively called elephants and mammoths. These are large terrestrial mammals with a snout modified into a trunk and teeth modified into tusks. Most genera and species in the family are extinct. Only two genera, Loxodonta (African elephants) and Elephas (Asian elephants), are ...
This custom had been discontinued by the time later visitors arrived in Brunei in the 1770s, who reported wild-living elephant herds that were hunted by local people after harvest. Despite the early records of royal elephants in Brunei and Banjarmasin, there was no tradition of capturing and taming local wild elephants in Borneo. [2]
The refuge takes in mistreated elephants, and gives them food and a home, as they can no longer survive by themselves in the wild. This particular elephant has a broken hip (left side of pic), as ...
The last elephant in the vicinity of the Cape Peninsula was killed in 1704, and elephant populations west of the Knysna region were extirpated prior to 1800. By 1775, the remaining Cape elephants had retreated into forests along the foothills of the Outeniqua / Tsitsikamma coastal mountain range around Knysna, and dense scrub-thickets of the ...
Mahouts, or elephant trainers, trained elephants using chains and a hook called an “elephant goad.” The animal grew accustomed to being led, raising its leg to provide a stepstool for riders ...
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.