THE INDIAN ELEPHANT. The Indian or Asiatic Elephant is stil
used as an animal of state by rajahs, princes, etc . and is also trained for purposes of sport, more particularly to
"ration with the female Elephant and her young one in the foreground is a characteristic group. The small ears and less powerful tusks winch distinguish
this from the African species will be noted. (Elefhas asiatictis.)
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Date 1895
Source http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/6220691310
Author Alfred Edmund Brehm; Wilhelm Haacke; Eduard Pechuël-Loesche; Richard Schmidtlein.
Full title Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brehm%27s_Life_of_animals_(Page_399)_(6220691310).jpg

The Asian or Asiatic elephant (Elephas maximus) is the only living species of the genus Elephas and is distributed in Southeast Asia from India in the west to Borneo in the east. Asian elephants are the largest living land animals in Asia.

The Indian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus) is one of three recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant and native to mainland Asia.