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The Asian elephant became a siege engine, a mount in war, a status symbol, a beast of burden, and an elevated platform for hunting during historical times in South Asia. [137] Ganesha on his vahana mūṣaka the rat, c. 1820. Asian elephants have been captured from the wild and tamed for use by humans.
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.
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 ...
Asian elephants once ranged from Western to East Asia and south to Sumatra. [150] and Java. It is now extinct in these areas, [149] and the current range of Asian elephants is highly fragmented. [150] The total population of Asian elephants is estimated to be around 40,000–50,000, although this may be a loose estimate.
Results suggest that elephant herds occupied a minimum home range from 250 to 400 km 2 (97 to 154 sq mi) in non-fragmented forest, while in fragmented forest habitat, the annual home range for elephants is estimated to be around 600 km 2 (230 sq mi). [11]
When looking at an African elephant and an Asian elephant side-by-side, you can really tell the differences in their head shapes and tasks. African elephants generally have much larger tusks than ...
African elephants have larger ears than Asian elephants. (2.) An Asian elephant has a twin-domed head with an indent in the middle and African elephants have a fuller and more rounded head. (3.) All African elephants, males and females, have tusks, for as a small percentage of male and female Asian elephants have tusks. (4.) An African elephant ...
On Nov. 1, the zoo’s elderly Asian elephant, Kamala, was euthanized. This comes after she was diagnosed […] Asian elephant Kamala dies at Smithsonian’s National Zoo