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wild elephants and capture of wild for domestication as work elephants continued. Elephant Kraals were organised to capture large herds of elephants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The capture of wild elephants were regulated under the Fauna and Flora Protection Ordinance in 1937,
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from 1875 to 1948 included an elephant and even today many institutions use the Sri Lankan elephant in their coat of arms and insignia. An important cultural symbiosis has continued to exist between the elephant and humans for over two thousand years – no religious procession was complete without its
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Between 1999 and the end of 2006, nearly 100 wild elephants were killed every year to protect crops and houses. During drought seasons many elephants damage agricultural land for food. Nearly 80 elephants were killed in northwestern Sri Lanka, 50 in south and east and another 30 in other parts of the
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as a status symbol and calls have been made for permission to capture wild elephants or release of orphaned wild elephants in government care to Temples to take part in pageants. Captive breeding in private ownership does not take place due to the long period of unemployability associated with it.
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The elephant conservation strategy of the Department of Wildlife Conservation aims at conserving as many viable populations as possible in as wide a range of suitable habitats as is feasible. This means protecting elephants both within the system of protected areas and as many animals outside these
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from 1505 to 1948, the wet zone was converted to commercially used fields and became heavily settled. Until 1830, elephants were so plentiful that their destruction was encouraged by the government, and rewards were paid for any that was killed. In the first half of the 19th century, forests in the
717: 2294: 752:, they feed on a wide variety of food plants. In Sri Lanka's northwestern region, feeding behaviour of elephants was observed during the period of January 1998 to December 1999. The elephants fed on a total of 116 plant species belonging to 35 families including 27 species of 1206:. A census of the domesticated elephant population in 1970 indicated 532 elephants among 378 owners, while this number had dropped 344 in 1982. These domesticated elephants were used mainly as work elephants and for cultural pageants, the chief of which is the annual 325:
Sri Lankan elephants are the largest subspecies reaching a shoulder height of between 2 and 3.5 m (6.6 and 11.5 ft), weigh between 2,000 and 5,500 kg (4,400 and 12,100 lb), and have 19 pairs of ribs. Their skin colour is darker than of
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Sri Lankan elephants are restricted mostly to the lowlands in the dry zone where they are still fairly widespread in north, south, east, north-western, north-central and south-eastern Sri Lanka. A small remnant population exists in the
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but also live outside protected areas. It is estimated that Sri Lanka has the highest density of elephants in Asia. Human-elephant conflict is increasing due to conversion of elephant habitat to settlements and permanent cultivation.
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and have the highest body point on the head. The tip of their trunk has one finger-like process. Their back is convex or level. Females are usually smaller than males. 90% of tuskless males are called makhnas. Some males have
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are less than 1,000 km (390 sq mi) in extent. Many areas are less than 50 km (19 sq mi), and hence not large enough to encompass the entire home ranges of elephants that use them. In the
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In the historical past, elephants were widely distributed from sea level to the highest mountain ranges. They occurred in the dry zone, in the lowland wet zone as well as in the cold damp montane forests. During the
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on ears, face, trunk and belly. Only 7% of males bear tusks. Average adult elephant tusks grow up to about 6 feet. It can weight up to 35 kg (77 lb). Longest tusks of 7 feet 6 inches long was found in
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have been linked, resulting in an overall area of 1,172 km (453 sq mi) of contiguous habitat for elephants. Nevertheless, about 65% of the elephant's range extends outside protected areas.
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Legal reforms pertaining to the captive elephant population was introduced in 2021, just as a landmark case into dozens of calves being stolen from their herds in a ten-year period collapsed with the
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in Sri Lanka by the ancient kings. Elephants were exported from the island for hundreds of years and into the Portuguese and Dutch colonial era. The British did not export elephants, instead took to
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Fernando, Prithiviraj; Vidya, T. N. C; Payne, John; Stuewe, Michael; Davison, Geoffrey; Alfred, Raymond J; Andau, Patrick; Bosi, Edwin; Kilbourn, Annelisa; Melnick, Don J (18 August 2003).
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and demand for land is a greater threat today, and the range of elephants continues to decline as irrigation and development projects lead to the conversion of natural land to
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Fernando, P. (2006). "Elephant conservation in Sri Lanka: Integrating scientific information to guide policy". In Groom, M. J.; Meffe, G. K.; Carroll, C. R. (eds.).
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country, totaling 160 elephant deaths in 2006 alone. Sri Lanka has thus become the country with the highest elephant mortality rate worldwide. The Sri Lankan
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in 1758. The Sri Lankan elephant population is now largely restricted to the dry zone in the north, east and southeast of Sri Lanka. Elephants are present in
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official records showed that 407 elephants were killed in 2019. The next three years after that showed 328, 375, and 439 elephant fatalities, respectively.
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System of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera and species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places
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However, they remain in use in terrain inaccessible by vehicles for logging and used for tourism. Ownership of elephants are highly prestigious among
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The Sri Lankan subspecies designation is weakly supported by analysis of allozyme loci, but not by analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences.
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in Kegalle injured elephants are treated, and orphaned baby elephants cared for. Nearly 70 elephants live here. Captive breeding is also going on.
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de Silva, Shermin; Wittemyer, George (October 2012). "A Comparison of Social Organization in Asian Elephants and African Savannah Elephants".
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areas that the land can support and landholders will accept, and not restricting elephants to the protected area network alone.
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Fleischer, Robert C.; Perry, Elizabeth A.; Muralidharan, Kasinathan; Stevens, Ernest E.; Wemmer, Christen M. (September 2001).
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Williams, C.; Tiwari, S. K.; Goswami, V. R.; de Silva, S.; Kumar, A.; Baskaran, N.; Yoganand, K. & Menon, V. (2020).
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By the turn of the 20th century, elephants were still distributed over much of the island. The area currently known as
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is a rehabilitation centre, where orphaned elephant calves are being kept until they can be released into the wild.
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Fernando, Prithiviraj; Jayewardene, Jayantha; Prasad, Tharaka; Hendavitharana, W.; Pastorini, Jennifer (2011).
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with the issuance of permits to capture of wild elephants. This practice stopped following the last
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Since time immemorial, elephants have been domesticated for uses as work elephants and
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5,879 in 2011, on the basis of counting elephants at water holes in the dry season.
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creates optimum habitat for elephants through promoting successional vegetation.
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Supun, T. G.; Prakash, Lahiru; Wijeratne, A. W.; Fernando, Prithiviraj (2020).
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for over two thousand years and remained so through British colonial rule. The
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Hendavitharana, W.; Dissanayake, S.; de Silva, M.; Santiapillai, C. (1994).
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Vidya, T. N. C.; Fernando, P.; Melnick, D. J.; Sukumar, R. (January 2005).
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de Silva, Shermin (2010). "Acoustic communication in the Asian elephant,
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Santiapillai, Charles; Fernando, Prithivirai; Gunewardene Manori (2006).
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and consume up to 150 kg (330 lb) of plant matter per day. As
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de Silva, Shermin; Ranjeewa, Ashoka DG; Kryazhimskiy, Sergey (2011).
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dropping charges and releasing the elephants to their former owners.
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The size of wild elephant populations in Sri Lanka was estimated at:
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Important protected areas for the Asian elephant in Sri Lanka
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Females and calves generally form small, loosely associated
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subspecies of the Asian elephant and was first described by
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Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research
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montane zone were cleared large-scale for the planting of
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is not a major threat, given the rarity of tuskers. Some
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Important protected areas for the elephant in Sri Lanka
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1,967 in June 1993 that were fragmented in five regions;
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Elephant feeding on grass in Yala National Park (video)
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Sri Lankan Elephant


Yala National Park
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Proboscidea
Elephantidae
Elephas
E. maximus
Trinomial name
Linnaeus
1758


Sri Lanka
subspecies
Asian elephant
type
Carl Linnaeus
binomial
Udawalawe National Park
Yala National Park
Lunugamvehera National Park
Wilpattu National Park
Minneriya National Park

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