Borneo's Pygmy Elephants, Under the Risk of Extinction

This is a dwarf among elephants: the pygmy elephant of Borneo is one meter (3 feet) shorter than its mainland Asian elephant counterparts and remarkably tame and passive. Now, these gentle creatures are menaced by the shrinking and fragmentation of their habitat, the forests.A new research ma... [ read more >> ]

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Comparison between the African, Asian and pygmy elephants

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Comparison between the African, Asian and pygmy elephants