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Elephants (Elephas maximus)( family Elephantidae)
Context
The Forest Department in Karnataka has launched an operation to capture trouble-causing wild elephants and fix radio collars on them.
About
- The Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) weighs about 5,500 kg and has a shoulder height of up to 3.5 metres.
- The Asian elephant includes three subspecies: the Indian, or mainland (E. maximus indicus), the Sumatran (E. maximus sumatranus), and the Sri Lankan (E. maximus maximus).
- African elephants have much larger ears, which are used to dissipate body heat.
- Elephants are keystone species as well as the Natural Heritage Animal of India.
- India has the largest number of wild Asian Elephants. The elephant population in the country is estimated to be over 30,000.
- Karnataka has the highest elephant population in India.
- Conservation Status:
- Convention of the Migratory Species (CMS): Appendix I
- Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972: Schedule I
- International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of threatened species:
- Asian Elephant: Endangered
- African Forest Elephant: Critically Endangered
- African Savanna Elephant: Endangered
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