#WorldElephantDay Elephant sumatranus ( Intisari blog ) 2016

The Sumatran elephant is sub types of Asian elephant which includes Indian elephant, elephant, elephant, Sri Lanka, Sumatra and Borneo elephant. The Sumatran elephant is extremely rare today, with estimates of the 2000 Sumatra elephant numbers just over 2000.

As the name suggests, is the Sumatran elephant found exclusively on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. However, the population of Sumatra elephant severe as they have lost more than 80% of their natural habitat to deforestation for Palm oil plantations.

The Sumatran elephant is smaller than the African elephant ears elephant Sumatra also has a curved spine more than the African elephant. Unlike African elephants, very rarely a female Sumatran elephants tusks and elephant tusks if female Sumatra, it is usually barely visible and can be seen only when you open female Sumatran elephant's mouth.

The Sumatran elephant follows strict immigration paths specified in the monsoon season. Biggest elephant herd elephant Sumatra responsible for elephant herd migration path recalls in Sumatra. The Sumatran elephant migration are generally between dry and wet seasons, problems arise when plantations where built along the migration routes of the Sumatra elephants herds, and caused a great deal of damage to agricultural land is newly founded in Sumatra elephants.

Sumatra elephants are herbivores, meaning they eat only plants and plant matter in order to get all the nutrients they need to survive. Sumatra elephants eat a variety of plants including herbs, leaves, shoots, bark, fruits, nuts and seeds. Sumatra elephants are often used long torso to help gather food.

Sumatra elephants were due to their large size, very few predators within their natural environment. Besides human hunters, are the main predator Sumatra Sumatran elephant, Tiger, though they tend to hunt elephant calves Sumatra smaller instead of larger and more powerful adult.

Female elephants are able to breed generally Sumatra time and 10 years of age, and give birth to a single calf Sumatran elephant after a 22 month pregnancy. When first born calf Sumatran elephant, weighs about 100 kg, not just as a mother who also sponsored other female Sumatran elephants herd (known as Elly). Elephant infant Sumatra remains with its mother until it is about 5 years old and gains independence, with males often leave the herd and female calves survive.

Today, the Sumatran elephant animal in danger of extinction due to the fact that the Sumatran elephant population is declining at a rate of critical. Sumatra elephants thinks he is suffering mainly because of Habitat loss in the form of deforestation and hunting for ivory tusks by human hunters.

Scientific name: somatranos Maximus defense SSP.

Salads: timink, 1847

While rating varied subspecies Maximus defence between authors, most modern therapy (Brahim djamate and 1982 Eisenberg) recognizes three subspecies: indicus. e Asian mainland, e Maximus. in Sri Lanka, and e somatranos m on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Borneo elephants have traditionally included indicus m-e (Brahim djamate and 1982 Eisenberg) or e-m. Somatranos (Medway 1977, but see Cranbrook et al., 2008 to discuss whether the elephants of Borneo are indigenous to the island, Fernando et al. 2003). These labels subspecies differences mainly based on body size and slightly variegated, plus the fact that somatranos m-e relatively larger ears, and an extra pair of ribs (Brahim djamate and 1982 Eisenberg). Set the Sri Lankan subspecies supported only weak spatial analysis allosimi (Nozawa weshotaki 1990), but not through DNA sequence analysis (mtdna) mitochondria (Hartl et al. 1996, Fernando et al. 2000, Fleischer et al. 2001). However, the current patterns of mtdna variation suggest that subspecies Sumatra monophyletic (Fleischer et al. 2001), and therefore this breed can be defined as an important shove unit (ESU). This suggests that the Sumatra elephants should be managed separately from other Asian elephants in captivity, and is also an argument for especially high priority to maintain "elephants of Sumatra" in the wild.

Population:

In the mid-1980s, when he stayed around 50% of natural forests on the island, elephant population in 44 separate populations in each of the eight provinces in the island (Hedges et al. 2005).

1985: I suggest a quick survey on the island between 2,800 and 4,800 elephants living in the wild in 44 ranges in all eight provinces of Sumatra Mainland (block and Haryanto, 1984). Riau Province was Bel

sumatranus Elephant Facts

The Kingdom: fauna

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Mammalia

Order: proboscidea

Family: Defense

Genus: Defense

Scientific name: Defense Maximus somatranos

Type: mammals

Diet: herbivore

Size (h): 2 m-3 m (7 m-10 m)

Weight: TBD kg (6, 500 lb-11 lbs)