Asian Elephant Gallery

Indian / Asian Elephant - using trunk to throw grass on back

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Indian / Asian Elephant - using trunk to throw grass on back
Corbett National Park - Uttaranchal - India
Elephas maximus
Jagdeep Rajput
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Asia, Asian, Behaviour, Elephant, Elephants, Endangered, India, Indian, M Ammals, Mammal, National Parks, Playing, Rare, Trunk, Trunks, Wild Life

Asian wildlife, chromolithograph, published in 1897

Asian wildlife: 1) Orang-Utan (Pongo); 2) Gibbon (Hylobatidae); 3) Tarsier (Tarsiidae); 4) Colugo (Dermoptera); 5) Large flying fox (Pteropus vampyrus); 6) Black giant squirrel (Ratufa bicolor); 7) Page semi-protected
Sun bear (Helarctos malayanus); 8) Indian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus); 9) Great hornbill (Buceros bicornis); 10) Great argus (Argusianus argus); 11) Red junglefowl (Gallus gallus); 12) Common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus); 13) Tiger (Panthera tigris); 14) Lesser Malay chevrotain (Tragulus kanchil); 15) Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus); 16) Large treeshrew (Tupaia tana); 17) Elephant Trunk Snake (Acrochordus javanicus). Chromolithograph, published in 1897

Elephant Parade DP094957

Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London. The Elephant Parade was an open air art exhibition of decorated elephant statues. Contributed by famous and upcoming artists they were for sale to promote the conservation of Asian elephants. Photographed in June 2010.
Famous and upcoming artists contributed statues to the cause of the conservation of Asian elephants and the public awareness of their life threatening situation. In the past 100 years Asian elephant populations had plummeted from 250, 000 to 25, 000

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