where to asian elephants live?
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Asian elephants are found in isolated pockets of India and Southeast Asia, including Sumatra and Borneo. They were formerly widely distributed south of the Himalayas, throughout Southeast Asia and in China as far north as the Yangtze River. Asian elephants are considered forest animals.
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Asian elephants are keystone species that play an important role in threatened ecosystems.
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Asian elephants. Elephants have been revered for centuries in Asia, playing an important role in the continent's culture and religion. They are also play a critical role in maintaining the region's forests. But their habitat is shrinking and Asian elephants are now endangered.
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Wild tigers live in Asia. Larger subspecies, such as the Siberian tiger, tend to live in northern, colder areas, such as eastern Russia and northeastern China. Smaller subspecies live in southern, warmer countries, such as India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia.
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The Sumatran rhino once roamed as far away as the foothills of the Eastern Himalayas in Bhutan and eastern India, through Myanmar, Thailand, possibly to Vietnam and China, and south through the Malay Peninsula. Today, the species only survives on the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Borneo.
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Elephants have a large variation of hair density across their bodies. That's the skin hair from an African elephant elephant on the left, and an Asian elephant on the right. ... Elephants have little surface area and don't sweat, but they have evolved physiological and behavioral ways of dealing with heat.
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Elephants live in large groups, separated by male and female. The males and females only come together for mating and short social interactions. Females stay together in a group for their whole lives and raise their young together. ... Older elephants in a group teach younger elephants manners and life skills.
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They live on average for 60 years in the wild and 80 in captivity. Generation length of the Asian elephant is 22 years.
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BOTSWANA (BLOOMBERG) - Botswana, which has the world's biggest population of elephants, lifted its suspension on hunting, a move that is likely to spark further debate on a politically charged issue in the southern African nation.
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Red Pandas are found in India, in northern mountains, Specially in Sikkim (state animal), Assam, West Bengal (mascot of darjeeling tea festival), Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya. ... they are endangered animal, in India they are facing habitat loss. Giant panda only live in China and 2–3 other countries in captivity.
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The elephants are bound for the Dallas Zoo, the Sedgwick County Zoo, in Wichita, Kansas, and the Henry Doorly Zoo, in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Elephants. Once common throughout Africa and Asia, elephant numbers fell dramatically in the 19th and 20th centuries, largely due to the ivory trade and habitat loss. While some populations are now stable, poaching, human-wildlife conflict and habitat destruction continue to threaten the species.
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The female Asian elephants run away for a short while, as part of a ritual, before mating with the victorious mate. The mating couple then remain together for around 3 weeks before the male heads off to the bachelor herd. The gestation period of the female Asian elephant is between 19 and 22 months.
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Elephant fact 11: Asian elephants have been domesticated for about 4,000 years. However, African elephants are not easily domesticated.
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There are only several hundred Asiatic lions in the wild, and they only live in the Gir Forest, India, in an area that is smaller than Greater London. Asian lions are slightly smaller than African lions.
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Using survival analysis, the life expectancy of the average Asian elephant is 47.6 years in Europe and 44.8 years in North America. African elephants in North America currently have a life expectancy of 33.0 years, but this age is likely to increase as more data are added for the older age classes.
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After 25 years at Lion Country Safari, the peaceful pachyderms are moving to other elephant-friendly places in the United States. They've been the only African elephants for the public to see in Broward, Palm Beach and Martin counties, but now they're leaving.