Asian Elephant
“ People don’t realize how amazing elephants are. ”
– Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
Scientific Taxonomy & Character Information
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Class: Mammalia
Order: Proboscidea
Family: Elephantidae
Genius: Elephas
Species: Elephas maximus
Descendant: Elephas ekorensis
Named by: Carl Linnaeus
Year Published: 1758
Size: 5.5 – 6.5 m long in length; 2.8 m tall in height; 4,000 kg in weight
Lifespan: 20 to 80+ years
Type:
Synapsids
Mammals (Proboscideans)
Title:
Nose Mouse
Pantheon: Terran/Gaian
Time Period: Pliocene – Holocene, 2.5–0 Ma
Alignment: Neutral
Threat Level: ★★★★★
Diet: Herbivorous
Elements: Water
Inflicts: Watered, mudded
Weaknesses: all
Casualties: ???
Based On: itself
Conservation Status:
Berbania: Near Threatened (NT) – IUCN Red List
Reinachos: Least Concern (LC) – IUCN Red List
Delphia: Endangered (EN) − IUCN Red List
Sawintir: Near Threatened (NT) – IUCN Red List
Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus) also known as the Asiatic Elephant, is the only living species of the genus Elephas and is distributed throughout the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, from India in the west, Nepal in the north, Sumatra in the south, and Borneo in the east.
Etymology
The word elephant is based on the Latin elephas (genitive elephantis) 'elephant', which is the Latinised form of the ancient Greek ἐλέφας (elephas) (genitive ἐλέφαντος (elephantos)), probably from a non-Indo-European language, likely Phoenician or Hittite 𒆷𒄴𒉺𒀸 (laḫpaš, “ivory”). It is attested in Mycenaean Greek as e-re-pa (genitive e-re-pa-to) in Linear B syllabic script.
Physical Appearance
In general, the Asian elephant is smaller than the African bush elephant and has the highest body point on the head. The back is convex or level. The ears are small with dorsal borders folded laterally. It has up to 20 pairs of ribs and 34 caudal vertebrae. The feet have more nail-like structures than those of African elephants—five on each forefoot, and four on each hind foot. The forehead has two hemispherical bulges, unlike the flat front of the African elephants. Skin color is usually grey, and may be masked by soil because of dusting and wallowing. Their wrinkled skin is movable and contains many nerve centers. It is smoother than that of African elephants and may be depigmented on the trunk, ears, or neck.
Tusks serve to dig for water, salt, and rocks, to debark and uproot trees, as levers for maneuvering fallen trees and branches, for work, for display, for marking trees, as a weapon for offense and defense, as trunk-rests, and as protection for the trunk. Elephants are known to be right or left tusked. Cows usually lack tusks; if tusks—in that case, called "tushes"—are present, they are barely visible and only seen when the mouth is open. The distinctive trunk is an elongation of the nose and upper lip combined; the nostrils are at its tip, which has one finger-like process.
Abilities
Elephants use their trunks for breathing, watering, feeding, touching, dusting, sound production and communication, washing, pinching, grasping, defense, and offense.
Ecology
Elephants are crepuscular, they are classified as megaherbivores. They are generalist feeders, and are both grazers and browsers. Cows and calves move about together as groups, while bulls disperse from their mothers upon reaching adolescence. Bulls are solitary or form temporary "bachelor groups". Rarely, tigers have been recorded attacking and killing calves, especially if the calves become separated from their mothers, stranded from their herd, or orphaned. Adults are largely invulnerable to natural predation. There is a singular anecdotal case of a mother Asian elephant allegedly being killed alongside her calf; however, this account is contestable.
Bulls will fight one another to get access to oestrous cows. Strong fights over access to females are extremely rare. Bulls reach sexual maturity around the age of 12–15. Between the age of 10 and 20 years, bulls undergo an annual phenomenon known as "musth". This is a period where the testosterone level is up to 100 times greater than non-musth periods, and they become aggressive. Secretions containing pheromones occur during this period, from the paired temporal glands located on the head between the lateral edge of the eye and the base of the ear.
Behavior
Elephants are neutral creatures, and will attack creatures and survivors when hit. Elephant or mammoth calves will also fight back if provoked, though they do not attack as directly as adults due to their "parent-following" rule.
Distribution and Habitat
Asian elephants inhabit grasslands, tropical evergreen forests, semi-evergreen forests, moist deciduous forests, dry deciduous forests and dry thorn forests, in addition to cultivated and secondary forests and scrublands. Asian Elephants formerly ranged from West Asia along the Iranian coast into the Indian subcontinent, eastwards into South-east Asia including Sumatra, Java, and Borneo, and into China at least as far as the Yangtze-Kiang.
Movement Pattern: Random
Individual Type: Solo/Herd
Population Trend: Decreasing
Population: ???
Locomotion: Amphibious
Habitat: All
Earth:
Extant (resident): Bangladesh; Bhutan; Cambodia; China; India; Indonesia (Kalimantan, Sumatera); Lao People's Democratic Republic; Malaysia (Sabah, Peninsular Malaysia); Myanmar; Nepal; Sri Lanka; Thailand; Viet Nam
Extinct (resident): Japan, Pakistan, Philippines (Sulu; Zamboanga de Sur)
Berbania/Hirawhassa: Chiosathra; Hirohito Islands
Tamed
Elephants and mammoths are tamed by feeding them ten sugar lumps or five cakes, or twelve kibbles. This only works on calves; if the calf is an adolescent or has grown into an adult, it will not accept the food. When the calf has accepted the food items, the naming screen will appear and it will become tamed to the player.
Lore
Coming soon
Known Individuals
Past and Present Incidents - Individuals
Terran/Gaian
Nelly
Silseng (Garo: "pretty bright")
Sawintiran
Nellia
The Recollections of Queen Arianna - Individuals
Terran/Gaian
Damanjote
Sofie
Tengrak (Garo: "bright strong")
Berbanian/Hirawhassan
Wil-en
Mentilha
Ring-rak
Chintanpreet
Reinachan/Ityoselese
Zeynab
Danisza
Sufiya
Gallery
Coming soon
Foreign Languages
Tagalog: Gadya ng Asia; Elepanteng Asyano
Iloko: Elepante ti Asia; Gadia ti Asia
Bahasa Indonesia: Gajah Asia; Elefante Asia
Bahasa Melayu: Gajah Asia
Maori: Arewhana Āhia
Navajo: Naakaii Dootłʼizhii Bikéyahdę́ę́ʼ chį́į́h yee adilohii
Arabized Navajo: Fíl yee Ashíya
Thai: ช้างเอเชีย
Mandarin: 亚洲象
Hebrew: פיל אסייתי (fil asiyi)
Arabic: فبل هندي
Estonian: India elevant, Aasia elevant
Finnish: Aasiannorsu
Hungarian: Ázsiai elefánt
Japanese: アジアゾウ
Korean: 아시아코끼리
Türkçe: Asya fili
Greek: Ασιατικός Ελέφαντας
Sinhala: ආසියානු අලියා
Tamil: ஆசிய யானை
Tiếng Việt: Voi châu Á
Assamese: এছীয় হাতী
Bangla: এশীয় হাতি
Polish: Сљоњ індыјскі (Słoń indyjski)
Belarusian: Азіяцкі слон (Aziyachki slon)
Croatian: Азијски слон (Azijski slon)
Czech: Слон индицкы (Slon indicky)
Sloven: Индијски слон (Indijski slon)
Lithuanian: Азиїис драмблүс (Azijinis dramblys)
French: Éléphant d'Asie
Esperanto: Azia elefanto
Catalan: Elefant asiàtic
Spanish: Elefante asiático
Aragonese: Elefant asiatico
Portuguese: Elefante-indiano, Elefante-asiático
Deutsch: Asiatischer Elefant
Nederlands: Aziatische olifant
English: Asian elephant, Asiatic elephant
Danish: Asiatisk elefant
Swedish: Asiatisk elefant
Faroese: Asiatiskur fílur
Icelandic: Asíufíll
Terran Saurfolk: Fillo de Asiya
Sawintiran Saurfolk: Fil-ha
Western Elvish: Eïlfin Asija
Eastern Elvish: Emfìlin Asijè
Trivia
Coming soon
References
http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/TaxBrowser_TaxonPage?taxid=30274
https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=584938#null
https://kidadl.com/quotes/best-elephant-quotes-you-wont-forget
http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=104147
https://www.deviantart.com/ognimdo2002/art/Asian-Elephant-913835817