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The Asian Elephant in Captivity
2006Today, one out of three Asian elephants lives in captivity. Although captive elephants have existed since 3,500 years, they have never been domesticated. During the last few decades the life of the captive elephants brought to temples, cities and tourist resorts have become more miserable than it was while they lived in jungle camps.
Fred Kurt, Marion E. Garai
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2018
According to Megasthenes, ambassador from the Seleucid Empire to the Mauryan court in the third century BC, Chandragupta Maurya's army of 30,000 cavalry and 6,00,000 infantry included 9,000 war elephants. Elephantry in the military was first practised in India, spread to southeast Asia and then went west on to the Mediterranean, as Greek king Pyrrhus ...
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According to Megasthenes, ambassador from the Seleucid Empire to the Mauryan court in the third century BC, Chandragupta Maurya's army of 30,000 cavalry and 6,00,000 infantry included 9,000 war elephants. Elephantry in the military was first practised in India, spread to southeast Asia and then went west on to the Mediterranean, as Greek king Pyrrhus ...
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Elephants and empire: The Asian elephant, from Alexander to Akbar
2015This thesis studies the prominence of the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus maximus) in the historical record. The purpose is to show the impact of elephas on human affairs, most notably in the formation and destruction of empires. Of these empires, two are of primary importance: the conquests of Alexander the Great of Macedon, and the Mughal Empire of ...
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Louse Infestation of Asian Elephants
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 1976K K, Kane, R M, Corwin, W J, Boever
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Sexual Selection in Asian Elephants
Science, 1997In an article by Pallava Bagla (Research News, [27 June, p. 1972][1]), a negative correlation between tusk length and parasite numbers in Asian elephant males ([1][2]) is reported, potentially another example of William Hamilton's theory that secondary sexual characteristics may be indicative of parasite levels ([2][3]).
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PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF THE ASIAN ELEPHANT (ELEPHAS MAXIMUS) BASED ON MITOCHONDRIAL DNA
Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution, 2001exaly