Postage Stamp - Asian Elephant by Kaye Menner is a photograph by Kaye Menner which was uploaded on October 8th, 2017.
Postage Stamp - Asian Elephant by Kaye Menner
My photograph of a real Australian $1 Postage Stamp of the Asian Elephant, an endangered species. ... more
by Kaye Menner
Title
Postage Stamp - Asian Elephant by Kaye Menner
Artist
Kaye Menner
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Photograph - Photography
Description
My photograph of a real Australian $1 Postage Stamp of the Asian Elephant, an endangered species.
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[Wikipedia]
The Asian or Asiatic elephant (Elephas maximus) is the only living species of the genus Elephas and is distributed in Southeast Asia from India and Nepal in the west to Borneo in the east. Three subspecies are recognised—E. m. maximus from Sri Lanka, the E. m. indicus from mainland Asia, and E. m. sumatranus from the island of Sumatra. Asian elephants are the largest living land animals in Asia.
Since 1986, the Asian elephant has been listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as the population has declined by at least 50 percent over the last three generations, estimated to be 60–75 years. Asian elephants are primarily threatened by loss of habitat, habitat degradation, fragmentation and poaching. In 2003, the wild population was estimated at between 41,410 and 52,345 individuals. Female captive elephants have lived beyond 60 years when kept in semi-natural surroundings, such as forest camps. In zoos, elephants die at a much younger age and are declining due to a low birth and high death rate.
The genus Elephas originated in Sub-Saharan Africa during the Pliocene, and spread throughout Africa before emigrating into southern Asia. The earliest indications of captive use of Asian elephants are engravings on seals of the Indus Valley civilization dated to the third millennium BC.
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October 8th, 2017
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Kaye Menner
Thanks GJ for your message. Think I missed 'Blessing of Animals' but did add my endangered animals to your Art Changes Lives group. Thanks for thinking of me. I enjoyed viewing more of your lovely new artworks and I left several L/F's in appreciation.
GJ Glorijean
Kay, 1) Show Closing in a few min... Into the Art! Blessing of Animals FAA show closing in a little while 01:30 AM 10/18/2020... Saw you are online so thought I'd reach out for you to submit some of your wonderful wildlife photographs! LF GJ glorijean... 2) Also running a new group ACL Art CHANGES Lives... Submit you ENDANGERED ANIMALS!!! No daily limit building grp! ADD Endangered to the DISCUSSION!!! Thx GJ glorijean