Java and Sumatra

21002-08501 Borneo pygmy elephant (Elephas maximus borneensus) is a small Asian elephant, with larger ears, longer tail, straighter tusks, and a remarkably tame and passive temperament. It is thought that the Borneo population might have descended from the extinct Javan elephant (Elephas maximus sondaicus). In 2003, Mitochondrial DNA analysis and microsatellite data indicated that it is derived from Sundaic stock and has undergone independent local evolution for some 300,000 years since the Pleistocene.

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21002-08501 Borneo pygmy elephant (Elephas maximus borneensus) is a small Asian elephant, with larger ears, longer tail, straighter tusks, and a remarkably tame and passive temperament. It is thought that the Borneo population might have descended from the extinct Javan elephant (Elephas maximus sondaicus). In 2003, Mitochondrial DNA analysis and microsatellite data indicated that it is derived from Sundaic stock and has undergone independent local evolution for some 300,000 years since the Pleistocene.

Borneo pygmy elephant Elephas maximus borneensus island dwarf dwarfism sondaicus Javan