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Asian elephant

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All About Asian Elephants!

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The Asian Elephant: An Endangered Icon

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Saving Asian Elephants

The Asian elephant, or Asiatic elephant, is the only living species of the genus Elephas and is distributed in Southeast Asia, from India and Nepal in the west to Borneo in the south. Three subspecies are recognised—E. m. maximus from Sri Lanka, E. m. indicus from mainland Asia and E. m. sumatranus from the island of Sumatra. The Asian elephants is the largest living land animal in Asia.
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