Sunday, May 17, 2009

Photo of the Day - Pygmy Elephants

Borneo elephants grossing a river at lower Sungai Kinabatangan. Asian elephant, sometimes called Indian elephant or pigmy elephant, is an endemic species to South Asia. Once it used to be common species in large areas, but nowadays it is restricted to smaller and smaller pieces of low-land rainforest. Subspecies Borneo Elephant was probably introduced to Borneo by Sultan of Sulu sometime in 16th century from Java.

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