The school is designed to help Asian elephants break into a growing international market.

A management plan for the Asian elephants in the area has been drawn up.

It is impossible to say whether Asian elephants enjoy working.

The groups said employees hit Asian elephants, an endangered species.

Asian elephants are the largest living land animals in Asia.

The Asian elephant has already vanished from most of the valley.

The Asian elephant lives in areas with some of the highest human populations.

Asian elephants are spread over areas with very different amounts of rain.

As is common with large animals, the dimensions of the Asian elephant are often exaggerated.

She has tusks, which is a feature found only in male Asian elephants.

Five Asian elephants joined the programming mix in a special appeal to families.

Nokrek is also an important habitat of the Asian elephants.

The forest habitat of the Asian elephant allows it more shade.

In January 2006 the new Asian elephant house was completed.

The Asian elephant appears in various religious traditions and mythologies.

The average life span of female Asian elephants, in the wild, is currently estimated to be about 60 years.

However, an extant relative of the mammoth is the Asian elephant.

Among the Asian elephants only the male has tusks.

The reserve is home of an estimated 100 of wild Asian elephants.

He is only the second Asian elephant to be conceived by artificial insemination.

He was in a Swiss zoo with some Asian elephants.

This area is extremely important for the continued well-being of the Asian Elephant.

An Asian elephant is pushing its head and trunk through a transparent plastic sheet.

Why only bull Asian elephants carry tusks remains a mystery.

The Asian Elephants are also led through the park twice daily for a swim in full view of the public.

A few Elephant Elephas maximus still inhabits in the forests of Bundala.

The Sri Lankan elephant (Elephas maximus maximus) is one of three recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant, and native to Sri Lanka.

The forests used to provide habitat to two prominent mammal species, the Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) and the Indian Elephant (Elephas maximus indicus), until recently but their populations have dwindled and even become locally extinct.