Gruesome butchering and being caught in traps – leading to slow, painful deaths – are among the cruel fates threatening Sabah ...

Pygmy elephants, unique to Borneo island, are a distinct subspecies of mainland Asian elephants. They are considered endangered, with about 2,000 left in Sabah state.

While pygmy elephants can live in logged and secondary forests, it is crucial that their remaining habitat is managed in a sustainable manner and not converted into plantations, the WWF said.

Malaysian officials on Monday said the mutilated corpse of an endangered pygmy elephant was found on Borneo island last week with about 70 gunshot wounds and tusks hacked off.

Pygmy elephants were long considered the same as Asian elephants. A myth held that they were remnants of a domesticated herd given as a gift by the British to a Borneo sultan in the 17th century.

A pygmy elephant. A villager in a remote settlement shot and killed an endangered pygmy elephant on Borneo island after it destroyed palm oil trees. Wildlife authorities found the animal's body on ...

Cute Elephant Dwindling in Number Pygmy elephants were isolated about 300,000 years ago from their relatives on mainland Asia and Sumatra and evolved their small size to adapt to forest living.

The goal is to understand the genetic diversity of pygmy elephants on the island of Borneo. Numbering about 2,000, these babyish-looking elephants are the most endangered subspecies of Asian elephant.

The elephant has tusks that grow backward, a wildlife official said. — -- A team of wildlife experts spotted a rare pygmy elephant with "saber-tooth"-like tusks in the Malaysian state of ...

Pygmy elephants were long considered the same as Asian elephants. A myth held that they were remnants of a domesticated herd given as a gift by the British to a Borneo sultan in the 17th century.