Two species that naturally co-exist with the gaur are heavier : the Asian elephant ( " Elephas maximus " ) and Indian rhinoceros ( " Rhinoceros unicornis " ).
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Elephants still survived in the southwestern provinces of China after the extinction of the Chinese elephant, but they are of a different subspecies, the Indian elephant, " Elephas maximus indicus ".
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Since 1986, " Elephas maximus " has been listed as endangered by IUCN as the population has declined by at least 50 % over the last three generations, estimated to be 60 75 years.
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Gigantic mammals such as the elephants ( Elephas maximus ) have become a " threat " to farmers and loggers because they are forced to forage for food in areas previously not ventured into.
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Since 1986, " Elephas maximus " has been listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List as the population has declined by at least 50 % over the last three generations, estimated to be 60 75 years.
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In 2003, the debate was re-opened by a suggestion that the introduced Sulu elephants and the north-east Borneo population might have descended from the now extinct Javan elephant, which was named " Elephas maximus sondaicus " by Deraniyagala.
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It is likely that the offspring would be weak and sterile; African elephants carry diseases that are fatal to Asian elephants, and, most important, Elephas maximus, the Asian elephant, has been crossed once, at the Chester Zoo in England in 1978.
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About half of the large mammals found in Kerala are reported from Chimmony Wildlife Sanctuary, especially some of the globally threatened species such as tiger ( Panthera tigris ), Asian elephant ( Elephas maximus ) and wild dog ( Cuon alpinus ).
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Long thought to belong to an extinct subspecies of Asian elephants, named " Elephas maximus rubridens ", they lived in Central and Southern China before the 14th century BC . They once occurred as far north as Anyang, Henan in northern China.
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Retrieved 2010-08-29 . ] Is just an flake article talking about the journal article [ Irie-Sugimoto, Naoko; Kobayashi, Tessei; Sato, Takao; Hasegawa, Toshikazu . " Relative quantity judgment by Asian elephants ( Elephas maximus ) " Animal Cognition, 2009, Vol . 12 ( 1 ), pp . 193-199 ].
