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Download QR code; Print/export ... elephant or the Borneo pygmy elephant, ... Sultan of Sulu in 1750 by the East India Company and later set free in northern Borneo. ...
Sicily and Malta were inhabited by two successive waves of dwarf elephants derived from P. antiquus, which first arrived on the islands at least 500,000 years ago. The first of these species is P. falconeri, which is one of the smallest dwarf elephant species at around 1 metre (3.3 ft) tall, and was strongly modified from its ancestor in numerous aspects, which lived in a depauperate fauna ...
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.
Borneo elephant is endemic for the island. The historical records of European association with Borneo and its fauna were compiled by Lord Medway that was published in 1977 by the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. There are 288 species of terrestrial mammals in Borneo which is dominated by the chiroptera (102 species of bats) and ...
Black shrew; Bornean clouded leopard; Bornean flat-headed frog; Bornean orangutan; Bornean pygmy shrew; Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew; Bornean water shrew; Bornean whiskered myotis; Bornean white-bearded gibbon; Bornean yellow muntjac; Borneo black-banded squirrel; Borneo elephant; Borneo python; Borneogena antigrapha; Britomartis igarashii ...
Four of these were megachiropterans, Pteropus vampyrus, Rousettus amplexicaudatus, Rousettus sp and Eonycteris spelaea, all of which remain extant species in Borneo and Peninsular Malaysia. The provisional list of mammals of Borneo (sensu Lord Medway, Payne et al., Corbet and Hill, Koopman, and Wilson and Reeder) are listed below. There are ...
The Sumatran elephant (Elephas maximus sumatranus) is one of three recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant, and native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra.In 2011, IUCN upgraded the conservation status of the Sumatran elephant from endangered to critically endangered in its Red List as the population had declined by at least 80% during the past three generations, estimated to be about 75 ...
King Island emu [16] (black) Dromaius novaehollandiae minor: King Island, Tasmania: Extinct (AD 1822) LR ≈ 0.48 [b] Dwarf yellow eyed penguin [17] Megadyptes antipodes richdalei: Chatham Islands, New Zealand: Extinct (after 1300 AD) Yellow-eyed penguin: Cozumel thrasher [14] Toxostoma gluttatum: Cozumel: Critically endangered: Other thrashers