Borneo Elephant

Borneo Elephant Physical Characteristics 

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Proboscidea

Family: Elephantidae

Genus: Elephas

Scientific Name: Elephas Maximus Borneensis

Type: Mammal

Diet: Herbivore

Size (H): 2m - 3m (7ft - 10ft)

Weight: 3,000kg - 5,000kg (6,500lbs - 11,000lbs)

Top Speed: 43km/h (27mph)

Lifespan: 55 - 70 years

Lifestyle: Herd

Conservation Status: Critically Endangered

Colour: Grey, Brown, Black

Skin Type: Leather

Favourite Food: Grass

Habitat: Rainforest and tropical woodland

Average Litter Size: 1

Main Prey: Grass, Fruit, Roots

Predators: Human, Tiger

Distinctive Features: Long trunk and large feet

The Borneo elephant is a sub-types of Asian elephant which incorporates the Indian elephant, the Sumatran elephant, the Sri-Lanka elephant and the Borneo elephant. The Borneo elephant is otherwise called the dwarf elephant as it is the littlest of the elephant sub-species.

As its name recommends, the Borneo elephant is found solely on the island of Borneo in the Malaysian territory of Sabah and parts of Indonesian Kalimantan. A significant part of the Borneo elephants common territory has been obliterated to clear a path for palm oil ranches and there are currently thought to be under 1,000 Borneo elephant people left in Sabah.

The Borneo elephant has littler ears than the African elephant and the Borneo elephant likewise has a more bended spine than the African elephant. In contrast to the African elephants, the female Borneo elephants very once in a while have tusks, and if the female Borneo elephant has tusks, they are commonly scarcely obvious and must be seen when the female Borneo elephant opens her mouth.

The Borneo elephant pursues strict movement courses that are controlled by the storm season. The oldest elephant of the Borneo elephant group is in charge of recollecting the relocation course of its Borneo elephant crowd. This Borneo elephant movement by and large happens between the wet and dry seasons and issues emerged when ranches where worked along the transitory courses of the Borneo elephant crowds, as the Borneo elephants made a lot of decimation the recently established farmland.

Borneo elephants are herbivorous creatures implying that they just eat plants and plant matter so as to increase the majority of the supplements that they have to endure. Borneo elephants eat a wide assortment of vegetation including grasses, leaves, shoots, barks, organic products, nuts and seeds. Borneo elephants frequently utilize their long trunk to help them in social affair sustenance.

Because of their huge size, Borneo elephants include not many predators inside their indigenous habitat. Other than human seekers, tigers are the essential predator of the Borneo elephant, despite the fact that they will in general chase the littler Borneo elephant calves as opposed to the a lot bigger and more grounded grown-ups.

Female Borneo elephants are commonly ready to breed when they are 10 years of age, and bring forth a solitary Borneo elephant calf following a multi month growth period. At the point when the Borneo elephant calf is first conceived, it weighs around 100 kg, and is thought about not just by its mom by likewise by other female Borneo elephants in the crowd (known as aunts). The baby Borneo elephant stays with its mom until it is around 5 years of age and gains its autonomy, with guys frequently leaving the crowd and female calves remaining.

Today, the Borneo elephant is viewed as a creature that is in impending threat of getting to be wiped out because of the way that Borneo elephant populaces have been declining at a basic rate. Borneo elephants are believed to endure fundamentally because of living space misfortune as deforestation and chasing for their ivory tusks by human poachers.