Talk:Asian Elephant

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There is a new elephant. The tests - which used the elephant's poo! - revealed that they became separated from other elephants around 300,000 years ago. They ended up on the Malaysian island of Borneo.

our elephant quiz</A> Anybody can update accordingly...Yosri 10:59, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Domestication

Are any elephants used as beasts of burden actually domesticated, i.e. bred and reared specifically for human purposes? Jared Diamond's book Guns, Germs, and Steel say all elephants used as such are actually tamed, not "domesticated" in the technical sense. k 14:06, 10 August 2006 (PST)

[edit] Size

Are the Asian elephants smaller than the Forest Elephant? I thought the Forest Elephant was the smallest Elephant. john k 15:38, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Citation needed

Remove the following which looks suspect

Asian Elephants are more closely related to mammoths then they are to African Elephants. So it probably would be better to place the Asian Elephant in the genus Mammuthus, or to place all mammoths in the genus Elephas.

Shyamal 05:47, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removed Hannibal's elephant Sarus

I have removed the reference to the leader elephant of Hannibal's stock. The fact that he was called "Syrian" does by no means indicate that he belonged to a Syrian subspecies. The Seleucids kings, who ruled in Syria in hellenistic times, used Indian elephants for their campaigns, which is well attested from ancient sources.

If Hannibal had a "Syrian" war-elephant, that probably meant he had been given an elephant of the Seleucid stock, possibly with the Ptolemies of Egypt as middlehand. The fact that Syrian elephants were extinct in 100 BCE is also very suspicious. 100 BCE is around the time when the Seleucids stopped using war-elephants, because their empire was falling to pieces. --Sponsianus 09:39, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Colbert related vandalism

I tried to remove the "tripled" statement but got lagged out. Bensaccount 04:22, 1 August 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Thai Elephants robbed to Australia, by Thai government

Thai state agencies and a successful mission to "robbed" 8 Thai elephants to Australia.

  • Pa Ti Bat Kan Plon Chang Thai ปฏิบัติการปล้นช้างไทย (in Thai), OPEN Online (online magazine); first published in Matichon (newspaper), 6 August 2006

There's a rumour that Australian zoo paid around 2,000 Million THB for this. And Thai government agreed. -- anyway, IUCN, the World Conservation Union, categorized Thai Elephant as "Endangered", and no trade is allowed whatsoever.

[edit] National symbol of India?

This is included in Category:National symbols of India, but I thought Royal Bengal Tiger was the national animal. Can someone clarify and provide references, please? --Ragib 22:02, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] causes of population reduction

it would be nice if this page contained information on why the elephants are on the endangered species list and what is casuing the population reduction. also what is being done to preserve the populations could be included. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 192.124.34.175 (talk • contribs) .


FYI, according to TheWildOnes.org, the Asian Elephant is extinct in the wild of China. Just to let you know. This is a beautiful animal and its almost depressing that it could be totally extinct within the next 50 years... Chasingrainbows 16:23, 30 January 2007 (UTC)chasingrainbows

There wasnt even any detail on the number left. I've sourced that and added it to the lead, where I think it belongs. Hornplease 15:58, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

asian elephants are bred and domesticated all around the countries of the Indian ocean, and even worshipped in some societies. interesting to see that it's actually considered "endangered", while the african bush elephant is just "vulnerable" and the african forest elephant is considered "endangered", while those two species are hunted excessively. as an elephant species with less attitude against humans, these guys are still widely used by large populations in India. so I say that it can't be THAT endangered. that's why there NEEDS to be more info on why populations are dropping so fast. Spincrus 14:17, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Why the capitalization?

Why is this article entitled "Asian Elephant" instead of "Asian elephant" ? --75.58.54.17 01:56, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

See WP:BIRD for the rationale. = UtherSRG (talk) 10:54, 19 October 2007 (UTC)