A selfie against the weirdly yellow Borneo Pygmy Elephants

            A selfie against the weirdly yellow Borneo Pygmy Elephants in the Malacca/ Melaka zoo. I missed seeing these elephants in the wild when  I visited a wildlife camp on the Kinabatangan River in 2014, thanks to rapid de-forestation and fragmentation of their their normal migration routes with scores of intervening plam oil plantations. Not to mention depletion of their food sources where vast tracts of forest are cleared for the said plantations. Hence, the pre- eminent threats to the Asian elephant today are habitat loss, degradation of forests, and fragmentation, which are driven by an expanding human population. This in turn leads to increasing human- elephant conflicts especially when elephants eat or trample crops. Hundreds of people and elephants are killed annually as a result of such conflicts. Notes about the Malacca/ Melaka zoo appeared earlier in this album. (see previous pictures). (Malacca/ Melaka, Malaysia, Sept. 2023)
   

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Taken on: September 1, 2023

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Sets appears in: • Malacca/ Melaka, Malaysia, Sept. 2023

Camera: Apple iPhone 12, f/1.6, 1/443 sec, 4.2mm, ISO 32 (more info) (hide info)

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