Asian elephant, Asiatic elephant (Elephas maximus) Elephant tiger confrontation
Date 1886
Source Drawn by Robert Armitage Sterndale. Denizens of the Jungles, 1886
Author Robert Armitage Sterndale
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ElephantTiger.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.