Artist Creator:Conradijn Cunaeus Cunaeus was van - hon. lid van N.A.M.
Description
Elephas maximus
Date 1849
Notes This object is part of the collection Iconographia Zoologica
Source/Photographer C.Cunaeus. De afgeschoten olifant Betsy uit Artis. Vlg. Max van Waay, A'dam 29/31 Maart 1966, no. 484. Geschonken aan Artis Bibliotheek 1966, door de heer M.D. Haga. Foutieve tekst: Het is Olifant Jack, zie Artis 47/2 2001
Old Latin name Elephas maximus
New Latin name Elephas maximus
Common name Nederlands: Aziatische olifant
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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.