Has anyone ever heard of these elephants?
They are suppose to be a new specie of elephants, living only on Borneo.
They have been seperated from their Asian relatives some 300,000 years ago.
They are much smaller, have bigger ears, and longer tails.
There are only 1,000 of this specie.
They have been discovered very recently, declared a speicie only in 2003.

Here's some info:

http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/Ne...1411488,00.html

http://www.naturestops.com/gallery/photo.p...u=284%7C97%7C...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3078680.stm

http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?f...9460&sec=nation

http://www.wwf.hu/en/sajtokozlemeny.php?id=261

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/animals/...000/3080498.stm

Yes i knew it....they are normally small if compared it with
other world elephants species....

Come to Malaysia's zoo...and you can see it...

Interesting.
Thanks for the invitation .

How big are they, btw?

Because other then news about their discovery, I couldn't find any other info.

you see another species thought to not exist, actually exists...

theres more undiscovered animals out there..

yeah, they've been denying that pygmie elephants exist. they said they were just adult elephants with some kind of growth disease. Scientists are so lame. For such smart people, you think they'd be able to make up excuses that were a little less childish.

Very interesting creatures
Here is a pygmy hippo,and a pygmy orca...

awwww looks at those guys, bless

The Pygmy Orca is interesting. I like those and Rhinoceros Dolphins a lot

These were discovered a long time ago. What is news is that they are finally "officially" recognize as a different and separate species.

It was National Geographic people that first stated they may be different species, but due to many factors they were just thought to be Asian elephants.

It did take a few years for the scientific community to research claims of elephants in Borneo.

heres a link with more info;
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...phant.html#main

Cool.National geographic is always cool...