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Borneo elephant

[ bawr-nee-oh el-uh-fuhnt ]

noun

  1. a notably passive Asian elephant subspecies ( Elephas maximus borneensis ), found in the tropical rainforests of northern and northeastern Borneo and classified as endangered: DNA analysis since 2004 suggests it may be of a unique indigenous population, rather than an introduced descendant of captive elephants from the 16th–18th centuries, as had long been hypothesized.


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Origin of Borneo elephant1

First recorded in 2000–05

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