These photos were taken by me during the Safari trip to Kaudulla and Minneriya National parks in Sri Lanka. In this post I will be talking little more about Asian elephant and the next post I will be talking about the '' Human- Elephant conflict in Sri Lanka''.
By Yashoda Somarathne
The elephant is one of the last few mega herbivores mammals that reach an adult body weight in excess of 1000 kg still extant on earth.The Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) is one of the most seriously endangered species of large mammals in the world today. Among asian elephants, femals do not have tusks and not all the males carry them either. In Sri Lanka, 93% of the bulls are tusk less and are referred to as maknas. In Sri Lanka, given that only about 7% of the bulls are tuskers.
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