Elephant is the star of Sri
Lanka’s wild life and the largest land animal in the
island. among the two verities of African elephants (elephas
coxenda) and Indian elephants (elephas maximize maximize),
in Sri Lanka you find Indian elephants and considered to
be intelligent than their African counterparts hence domesticated.
Although there have been about 36000 elephants with the
start of this century it has reduced up to about 2000 due
to pouching. according to the recent records about 2000
of them scattered all over the country in small pockets
and about 500 of them are domesticated. |
