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) ...

A total of three recognized Asian elephant subspecies exist: the indicus, found across mainland Asia, the sumatranus, found only on the island of Sumatra, and the maximus, found only in Sri Lanka.

Kochi: A Kerala court has sentenced three persons to three years in jail for hunting a wild elephant in a reserve forest in 2009, saying that the pachyderm is the state animal and its "merciless" ...