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亚洲象比起它在非洲的亲戚非洲象个头要小一些,区别这两种大象的最容易的方法是亚洲象的耳朵要小很多,而且只有雄性有象牙。亚洲象主要在印度、尼泊尔、斯里兰卡、缅甸、泰国、越南、印度尼西亚和马来西亚等十三个国家,大约四十四万平方千米的土地上。古代从西亚的两河流域,往东延伸到中国的黄河流域,都曾经有它们活跃的踪影。现今中国境内就只剩下云南西双版纳一带才能找到其足迹。
Asiatic elephants are smaller than their relatives in Africa, and the easiest way to distinguish these elephants is to have much smaller elephant ears and only male ivory. Asian elephants are mainly in the area of about 440,000 square kilometers in thirteen countries such as India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia. In the ancient times, the two river basins in West Asia and the Yellow River valley that extended eastward to China all had their vivid sight. Today, only the territory of China’s Xishuangbanna in Yunnan Province can find its footprint.