Asian elephant, Asiatic elephant (Elephas maximus) English: Illustration of the head and trunk of an Asiatic elephant
Date 1872-1873
Source Popular Science Monthly Volume 2
Author Unknown
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PSM_V02_D156_Asiatic_elephant.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.