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In Nepal’s Chitwan, elephant’s shooting, death raises eyebrows
On the morning of Jan. 5, a soldier deployed at the Chitwan National Park shot a wild elephant (Elephas maximus) after it ...
How an agricultural shift helped a Nepal village keep migrating wild elephants at bay
When barriers and fences failed, farmers switched from paddy and maize to tusker-resistant crops such as tea, lemons and even ...
This monstrous mama laid the world’s largest egg
An intact, fossilized specimen of the world’s largest egg—of any known species ever on Earth—entered the National Geographic ...
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Evolution and taxonomy of Asian elephants
Finally, in collaboration with colleagues in the UK, Denmark, Italy, and elsewhere, we have properly defined, for the first time since Linnaeus named the species in 1758, a type specimen (lectotype) ...