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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 ...
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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) ...