He no published pictures, but saw a clear link to the Southern mammoth ( " M . meridionalis " ), which he in turn called " Elephas meridionalis " due to similarities.
42.
After the study of new osteological material that has been excavated in anatomical connection in the Charkadio Cave on Tilos island the new species name " Elephas tiliensis " has been assigned to the Tilos dwarf elephants.
43.
Poulakakis and others proposed in 2002 to rename all the described specimens of larger size than the " Mammuthus creticus " under the new subspecies name " Elephas antiquus creutzburgi " ( Kuss, 1965 ).
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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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The results of this research are consistent with previous morphological reports, according to which " Palaeoloxodon " is more closely related to " Elephas " than to " Loxodonta " or " Mammuthus ".
46.
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 ).
47.
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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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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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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In 1924, Jiro Makiyama researched fossils which are found in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan and reported the elephant was a new subspecies and denominated the fossil " Elephas namadicus naumannni " in Notes on a fossil elephant from Sahamma, Totomi . ( 1924 ).
