Cede Prudente

From National Geographic comes news of a new find of previously thought to be extinct Javan pygmy elephants in Borneo. "Today a small population of unusually placid and genetically distinct elephants lives in the northeast corner of Borneo, a Southeast Asian island shared by Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei. The new research suggests the elephants may have descended from a population of elephants that originally lived on the island of Java in what is now Indonesia." To read the entire article, click here.

04/24/08 by visitEarth
Tags: Indonesia, elephant, pygmy, elephants, Borneo, Java, extinct