Syrian elephant
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syrian-elephant-298-8325394
title:
Syrian elephant
text:
The Syrian or Western Asiatic elephant was the westernmost population of the Asian elephant, which went extinct in ancient times, with early human civilizations in the area utilizing the animals for their ivory, and possibly for warfare. Skeletal remains of E. m. asurus have been recorded in the Middle East, notably from Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, from periods dating between at least 1800 BC and likely 700 BC. Due to the lack of any Late Pleistocene or early to mid-Holocene records for Asian
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Extinct subspecies of the Asian elephant
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_elephant
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date modified:
2024-02-12T06:13:55Z
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