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Borneo elephant

Index Borneo elephant

The Borneo elephant, also called the Bornean elephant or the Borneo pygmy elephant, is a subspecies of Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) that inhabits northeastern Borneo, in Indonesia and Malaysia. [1]

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  1. 65 relations: African elephant, Asian elephant, Banjarmasin, Bolkiah, Borneo, Brunei, CITES, Deramakot Forest Reserve, Dipterocarpaceae, DNA, Dwarf elephant, East India Company, Endangered species, Evolutionarily significant unit, Feral, Ferdinand Magellan, Frederick Nutter Chasen, Genetics, Gomantong Forest Reserve, Habitat destruction, Habitat fragmentation, Indian elephant, Indonesia, Insular dwarfism, IUCN Red List, Java, Javan elephant, Kalimantan, Kallana, Kinabatangan District, Last Glacial Maximum, Leaching (pedology), Logging, Maguindanao, Majapahit, Malaysia, Microsatellite, Mindanao, Mineral, Mitochondrial DNA, Morphology (biology), Morphometrics, Natural History Museum, London, Nunukan Regency, Oregon Zoo, Palm oil, Paulus Edward Pieris Deraniyagala, Peninsular Malaysia, Pleistocene, Population growth, ... Expand index (15 more) »

  2. Elephants
  3. Fauna of the Borneo lowland rain forests
  4. Mammals described in 1950
  5. Mammals of Borneo

African elephant

African elephants are members of the genus Loxodonta comprising two living elephant species, the African bush elephant (L. africana) and the smaller African forest elephant (L. cyclotis). Borneo elephant and african elephant are elephants.

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Asian elephant

The Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), also known as the Asiatic elephant, is a species of elephant distributed throughout the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, from India in the west to Borneo in the east, and Nepal in the north to Sumatra in the south. Borneo elephant and Asian elephant are elephants.

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Banjarmasin

Banjarmasin is a city in South Kalimantan, Indonesia.

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Bolkiah

Bolkiah ibni Sulaiman (Jawi:; died 1524), also known for his title as Nakhoda Ragam (Jawi), was the sixth Sultan of Brunei; reigning from 1485 until his death in 1524, he ascended the throne upon the abdication of his father, Sultan Sulaiman.

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Borneo

Borneo (also known as Kalimantan in the Indonesian language) is the third-largest island in the world, with an area of.

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Brunei

Brunei, officially Brunei Darussalam, is a country in Southeast Asia, situated on the northern coast of the island of Borneo.

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CITES

CITES (shorter name for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also known as the Washington Convention) is a multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals from the threats of international trade.

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Deramakot Forest Reserve

Deramakot Forest Reserve is a natural reserve in Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia.

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Dipterocarpaceae

Dipterocarpaceae is a family of 16 genera and about 695 known species of mainly lowland tropical forest trees.

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DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.

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Dwarf elephant

Dwarf elephants are prehistoric members of the order Proboscidea which, through the process of allopatric speciation on islands, evolved much smaller body sizes (around shoulder height) in comparison with their immediate ancestors.

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East India Company

The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874.

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Endangered species

An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction.

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Evolutionarily significant unit

An evolutionarily significant unit (ESU) is a population of organisms that is considered distinct for purposes of conservation.

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Feral

A feral animal or plant is one that lives in the wild but is descended from domesticated individuals.

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Ferdinand Magellan

Ferdinand Magellan (1480 – 27 April 1521) was a Portuguese explorer best known for having planned and led the 1519–22 Spanish expedition to the East Indies, which achieved the first circumnavigation of Earth in history.

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Frederick Nutter Chasen

Frederick Nutter Chasen (1896 – 13 February 1942) was an English zoologist.

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Genetics

Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.

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Gomantong Forest Reserve

Gomantong Forest Reserve is a protected forest reserve in Sandakan and Kinabatangan Districts of Sandakan Division, Sabah, Malaysia.

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Habitat destruction

Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) occurs when a natural habitat is no longer able to support its native species.

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Habitat fragmentation

Habitat fragmentation describes the emergence of discontinuities (fragmentation) in an organism's preferred environment (habitat), causing population fragmentation and ecosystem decay.

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Indian elephant

The Indian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus) is one of three extant recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant, native to mainland Asia. Borneo elephant and Indian elephant are elephants and Mammals of Malaysia.

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Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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Insular dwarfism

Insular dwarfism, a form of phyletic dwarfism, is the process and condition of large animals evolving or having a reduced body size when their population's range is limited to a small environment, primarily islands.

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IUCN Red List

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of biological species.

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Java

Java is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia.

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Javan elephant

The Javan elephant (Elephas maximus sondaicus) was proposed by Paules Edward Pieris Deraniyagala in 1953, based on an illustration of a carving on the Buddhist monument of Borobudur in Java. Borneo elephant and Javan elephant are elephants.

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Kalimantan

Kalimantan is the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo.

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Kallana

Kallana (കല്ലാന) is a suspected species of dwarf elephants allegedly found in South India.

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Kinabatangan District

The Kinabatangan District (Daerah Kinabatangan) is an administrative district in the Malaysian state of Sabah, part of the Sandakan Division which includes the districts of Beluran, Kinabatangan, Sandakan, Telupid and Tongod.

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Last Glacial Maximum

The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), also referred to as the Last Glacial Coldest Period, was the most recent time during the Last Glacial Period where ice sheets were at their greatest extent 26,000 and 20,000 years ago.

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Leaching (pedology)

In pedology, leaching is the removal of soluble materials from one zone in soil to another via water movement in the profile.

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Logging

Logging is the process of cutting, processing, and moving trees to a location for transport.

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Maguindanao

Maguindanao (Maguindanaon: Dairat nu Magindanaw; Iranun: Perobinsia a Magindanao; Lalawigan ng Maguindanao) was a province of the Philippines located in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).

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Majapahit

Majapahit (ꦩꦗꦥꦲꦶꦠ꧀), also known as Wilwatikta (ꦮꦶꦭ꧀ꦮꦠꦶꦏ꧀ꦠ), was a Javanese Hindu-Buddhist thalassocratic empire in Southeast Asia that was based on the island of Java (in modern-day Indonesia).

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Malaysia

Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.

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Microsatellite

A microsatellite is a tract of repetitive DNA in which certain DNA motifs (ranging in length from one to six or more base pairs) are repeated, typically 5–50 times.

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Mindanao

Mindanao is the second-largest island in the Philippines, after Luzon, and seventh-most populous island in the world. Located in the southern region of the archipelago, the island is part of an island group of the same name that also includes its adjacent islands, notably the Sulu Archipelago.

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Mineral

In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid substance with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form.

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Mitochondrial DNA

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA and mDNA) is the DNA located in the mitochondria organelles in a eukaryotic cell that converts chemical energy from food into adenosine triphosphate (ATP).

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Morphology (biology)

Morphology in biology is the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.

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Morphometrics

Morphometrics (from Greek μορϕή morphe, "shape, form", and -μετρία metria, "measurement") or morphometry refers to the quantitative analysis of form, a concept that encompasses size and shape.

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Natural History Museum, London

The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history.

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Nunukan Regency

Nunukan Regency is a regency of North Kalimantan Province in Indonesia.

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Oregon Zoo

The Oregon Zoo, originally the Portland Zoo and later the Washington Park Zoo, is a zoo located in Washington Park, Portland, Oregon, approximately southwest of downtown Portland.

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Palm oil

Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of oil palms.

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Paulus Edward Pieris Deraniyagala

Paulus Edward Pieris Deraniyagala (1900–1976) was a Sri Lankan paleontologist, zoologist, and artist.

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Peninsular Malaysia

Peninsular Malaysia, historically known as Malaya, also known as West Malaysia or the "Malaysian Peninsula", is the western part of Malaysia that comprises the southern part of the Malay Peninsula on Mainland Southeast Asia and the nearby islands.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Population growth

Population growth is the increase in the number of people in a population or dispersed group.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region.

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Reginald Innes Pocock

Reginald Innes Pocock, (4 March 1863 – 9 August 1947) was a British zoologist.

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Sabah

Sabah, or given nickname Sabah Bumi Di Bawah Bayu (means Sabah Land Below The Wind) is a state of Malaysia located on the northern portion of Borneo, in the region of East Malaysia.

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Sembakung River

The Sembakung River is a river in Borneo that flows from Sabah, Malaysia to North Kalimantan, Indonesia, about 1600 km northeast of the capital Jakarta.

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Subspecies

In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.

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Sultanate of Sulu

The Sultanate of Sulu (Kasultanan sin Sūg; Kesultanan Sulu; Sultanato ng Sulu) was a Sunni Muslim state that ruled the Sulu Archipelago, coastal areas of Zamboanga City and certain portions of Palawan in the today's Philippines, alongside parts of present-day Sabah and North Kalimantan in north-eastern Borneo.

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Sumatran elephant

The Sumatran elephant (Elephas maximus sumatranus) is one of three recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant, and native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Borneo elephant and sumatran elephant are elephants and Mammals of Indonesia.

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Sunda Islands

The Sunda Islands (Kepulauan Sunda; Tetun: Illa Sunda) are a group of islands in the Malay Archipelago.

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Sundaland

Sundaland (also called Sundaica or the Sundaic region) is a biogeographical region of Southeast Asia corresponding to a larger landmass that was exposed throughout the last 2.6 million years during periods when sea levels were lower.

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Tabin Wildlife Reserve

The Tabin Wildlife Reserve (Taman Hidupan Liar Tabin) is a nature preserve in Sabah, Malaysia.

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Taxonomy (biology)

In biology, taxonomy is the scientific study of naming, defining (circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics.

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Transect

A transect is a path along which one counts and records occurrences of the objects of study (e.g. plants).

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Transmitter

In electronics and telecommunications, a radio transmitter or just transmitter (often abbreviated as XMTR or TX in technical documents) is an electronic device which produces radio waves with an antenna with the purpose of signal transmission up to a radio receiver.

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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria.

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Ulu Kalumpang Forest Reserve

Ulu Kalumpang Forest Reserve is a region in Sabah, Malaysia.

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See also

Elephants

Fauna of the Borneo lowland rain forests

Mammals described in 1950

Mammals of Borneo

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borneo_elephant

Also known as Bornean elephant, Borneo Pygmy Elephant, Elephas maximus borneensis, L. pumilio, Pigmy elephant, Pygmy Elephant, Pygmy elephants.

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