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a brand-new guest house, opened June 2009, aimed for short-stay budget travelers and backpackers. Pongyi is especially suited for those travelers looking for more atmospheric and authentically Japanese accommodation. It is the first hostel available in Kanazawa, one of the oldest cities in Japan. Kanazawa suffered no damage during the Second World War which ensured the survival of its rich cultural heritage. The guesthouse within walking distance of Kanazawa Station and located by the beautiful Kuratsuki canal. All of Kanazawa's sights are easily accessible from the guesthouse's central location. As a cozy little guest house Pongyi is clean, inexpensive and comfortable, with 2 dormitory style rooms and a Japanese style tatami-room. We look forward to having you as our guest! •Every single bunk bed comes with a pillow, pillow case, bottom sheet and a coverlet. •Communal lavatory and shower. (Also, there is a public bathhouse 1 min. walk away) •Free locker with padlock. •Laundry machine (100yen per use. Clothesline drying) •Free internet available (one desktop PC). •Fully equipped communal kitchen. •Microwave oven •Japanese style room has air conditioner. •Towel rental (100yen.) •Hair dryer for rent (free of charge). •Soap and shampoo in the shower (free of charge). •Yukata (Japanese style night clothes) for rent. ( 200yen) LOCATION: •5 minutes walk to the nearest Kanazawa Loop Bus stop (access to all major sights). •10 minutes walk to Omicho market •20 minutes walk to Kanazawa Castle Park and the adjacent Kenroku-En Garden, perhaps Kanazawa's best loved sight and among the top three most scenic gardens in Japan. •Located very close to a variety of restaurants (including Yakitori, etc.) and supermarkets |
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Pongyi is located 5min. of within walking distance from JR Kanazawa Station.
1. There are 2 exits at Kanazawa Station. Take the "East Exit", or "Higashi-guchi.
2. You will see the "ANA CROWNE PLAZA Hotel" at the right side.
3. Walk toward the "ANA CROWNE PLAZA Hotel."
4. Proceed straight on, looking the "ANA Hotel" to your righthand.
5. You will see a convenience store "Daily (Mart)" Keep on walking.
6. Walk past the restaurant "Gust" and "Toyoko Inn Hotel"…
7. You will come to Rokumai intersection.
8. Cross the intersection, look for the restaurant "Yakitori-ichiban"(there are many japanese red lanterns in front of the restaurant) diagonally forward left.
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Friendly, relaxed atmosphere. FREE Wi-Fi access in all rooms plus the lounge and bar areas. Bournemouth International Conference Centre only 500 yards walk. GROUPS WELCOME - we do accept Stag and Hen groups at weekends. Ground floor rooms available. Cricket and Golf groups welcome. LICENSED BAR - often open late at weekends for our guests, NOW WITH A SUNNY OUTSIDE TERRACE TO ENJOY YOUR DRINKS. Bar and Dining room have just been refurbished in a contemporary style. All major credit cards(3% surcharge) and Debit cards (£1 surcharge) accepted (except Amex). Car Park at rear of Hotel- LIMITED AVAILABILITY. Further off road parking and car parks nearby. Car parking charges of £5 per car per night.
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In Donald Miller's early years, he was vaguely familiar with a distant God. But when he came to know Jesus Christ, he pursued the Christian life with great zeal. Within a few years he had a successful ministry that ultimately left him feeling empty, burned out, and, once again, far away from God. In this intimate, soul-searching account, Miller describes his remarkable journey back to a culturally relevant, infinitely loving God.
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Scireadr will have its first meeting tomorrow night. We'll be discussing A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. I've never taken part in a book club like this before, so I'm preparing. I don't have answers. I don't know if I need answers, what I need are questions so I'm making some notes that I can pick up with my phone tomorrow night. Feel free to add questions or comments below.
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Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy by Giulio Magli
StandardNote: Giulio Magli was one of the examiners of my thesis, so his book is hardly likely to get a bad review.
This review rounds off a trilogy to go with Skywatchers, Shamans and Kings and People and the Sky. Like the other two books this could be said to be part of a World Archaeoastronomy approach, but Giulio Magli adds a twist. Some of this is down to the approach he's taken to archaeoastronomical sites, but he also adds a bit more.
Magli's approach is similar to what I would have done if I was writing an introduction to archaeoastronomy book. He tackles the sites around the world. So take a deep breath because in his opening section of twelve chapters — slightly over half the book — he covers. Palaeolithic Europe, Prehistoric Britain, the temples of Malta, Egypt, Babylon, East North America with the Hopewell and Cahokia, West North America with Chaco and the Anasazi, Northern Mexico and Tenochtitlan, The rest of Mesoamerica and Palenque, The Incas, Nazca and Polynesia. That leaves massive holes where you would expect to find India, China, Korea and Japan and a lack of African material. That's more due to the state of play in academic archaeoastronomy at the moment than a fault of Magli. In general Africa has been greatly overlooked and there's not a lot of integration between Asian astronomy and the rest of the world. It's getting better, but it's still under-represented compared to the Mayans and Prehistoric Europe.
If this had been the sum total of the book I wouldn't be that enthusiastic about it. It's not bad. It's written from an astronomical point of view with some amusing digs against archaeologists. If you were interested in archaeoastronomy and approaching it from astronomy and not anthropology I'd recommend this over Aveni or Krupp's book as an introduction to the field. What really marks out the book as worth reading is section 2.
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Creating Prehistory by Adam Stout
StandardI could draw up quite a list of people who won't like this book. Adam Stout purports to be an unapologetic relativist (more of that later). His history of archaeology in Britain, mainly in the inter-war period, comes from this position and is allied to his interest in alternative pasts such as druidry and earth mysteries. If you think the history of archaeology is primarily a story of how our knowledge of the past came to be more accurate, you'll struggle with this. If you think the success of people such as OGS Crawford and Mortimer Wheeler was down to employing scientific methodology you'll struggle with this. If you think the only sane response to modern druids is mockery you may struggle with this. I certainly disagree with a few of the author's characterisations of archaeology. Despite (or even because?) of this it's a challenging and engaging view of the development of archaeology.
The first point of difference between myself and Stout is a matter of how Political with a capital P archaeology is. I accept that archaeology is a political action, but so is going down to the shops to buy a loaf of bread. I might be reifying abstract ideologies and reinforcing economic roles in society, but if I want to critique those ideologies and roles, I don't think I'd start by analysing my shopping list. Adam Stout starts with an account of writing against the backdrop of the Occupation of Iraq. He states that the cover story for May 2003 'PREHISTORIC WAR' was cashing in on the war fever in the USA. It might, but as a counter-example I'll offer a quote from the introduction to Whiteley and Hays-Gilpin's new book:
A war is raging in the Middle East as you read this introduction or, at least, one is imminent and the world is on high alert. We can assert this with some certainty, regardless of the shelf life of this volume, because this condition has characterised the region for most of the last 1000 years.Whiteley and Hays-Gilpin 2008:11
I can't say Archaeology magazine wasn't using the war to boost sales. I suspect it wasn't an openly cynical ploy to use the deaths of thousands of people as a sales drive. Equally I wouldn't be surprised if someone wanted to put war in a historical perspective but didn't think about what the upcoming event would mean for many people's lives. It's hard to say because if you want to publish on war when the USA isn't either contemplating invading somewhere or else actually invading somewhere you have a very small window to aim for. One difference between us then is that I think the interest in war reflected public opinion rather than led it. This matters because it shows how Stout works from the position that archaeologists are largely working in the service of the state. This is point of departure for most of the book, the creation of archaeological authority.
The first part is most explicitly about the creation of archaeological authority. It's fertile ground for anyone who wants to find evidence of self-congratulation amongst academics. It's the strongest section of the book because it's most clearly here that Stout marshalls the evidence to demonstrate his point. He's able to draw on letters from various protagonists to show that political machinations were a major part of the academic archaeological programme of the the 1920s and 1930s. I was fascinated to see how a group of motivated people effectively collaborated to take the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia and take it for their own use as a national society. Yet while Stout is making a point, it doesn't come across as axe-grinding.
The second part is, for me the least satisfying of the four. It tackles a fight against diffusionism as propsed by anthropologists. Again the handling of the politics is very good, but I'm not sure how well it squares with the content. Stout's argument is that archaeologists were eager to show inexorable progress to the modern era, and that diffusionism was a threat to this. In the case of someone like Childe, I'd argue that diffusion was the means by which progress occured.
The third section is a case study of Stonehenge. If you've wondered where the modern Druids came from and how they decided to claim Stonehenge, then this is essential reading. Once again the politics are covered well, as are some of the beliefs of the 20th century Druids.
The fourth section is about The Old Straight Track and the challenge from other interpretations of the past and the challenge to archaeology. It provides some interesting examples of how unwanted interpretations could be neutered and the emphasis of archaeology as something vocational. Stout hints at the challenge being in part that ley-hunters were contextualising sites into their place within the wider landscape and fact-obsessed archaeology was less theorised at this time. It is fair comment, though I doubt it would be popular amongst many archaeologists.
My biggest concern with most of the sections is that the conflict is seen as political rather than factual. Possibly for reasons of space there's little examination of the archaeological content. In the case of ley-hunting, to what extent was the statistical likelihood of leys occurring known at the time The Old Straight Track was published? What were the archaeological objections? The second section in particular would have benefitted more from a discussion of the content as well as the context.
Another concern is that Stout never goes beyond prehistory. To some extent this is criticising him for not writing a book which he didn't intend to write, after all the title is Creating Prehistory. At the same time the reader could come away with the impression that archaeology in Britain was almost entirely the archaeology of prehistoric Britain. Romans are occasionally mentioned, but the effects of Roman or Medieval archaeology on the development of prehistoric archaeology aren't really tackled.
This may be where the difference between his relativist position and my own matters. He sees history and archaeology as a matter of telling stories. Even if this is the case, stories have forms. The Iliad is not going to be rendered into a limerick. Similarly scientific explanations have forms, and there is no real tackling of methodology or theory in Stout's book. If you think coherence to reality played a part, even if it not the sole part, then there's a big hole in the history. It cannot be dismissed simply as a matter of incommensurable epistemologies as Stout himself shows.
Stout argues that better is not necessarily more accurate, using the example of Maiden Castle. On page 235 he uses Niall Sharples' account of Maiden castle to show how Wheeler was capable of spinning his own tales based on his own prejudices. This I agree with, but I would also ask how we can accept Sharples' explanation as more correct. The answer lies in the methodology of archaeology which has developed, in part from Wheeler's own work. The method Wheeler used gave some of the tools to undermine his work. In contrast I don't see that possibility from Iolo Morgawg's work. Even if science were only story, it's clearly a different sort of story.
Another matter I'd like to see Stout explore would be the development of archaeology as an anti-religious science. Archaeology as Whiteley and Hays-Gilpin (2008:20n1) say tends to shy away from religion. Certainly archaeologists are happy to diagnose anything they can't understand as being 'ritual', but once it's in that box study is often closed. They put this down to science and religion being competitors in claims for discerning truth in the first half of the 20th century. In chapter nine The Esoteric Revival Stout attributes the negative view many of the inter-war archaeologists had towards early religion as being due to their atheism. Perhaps more could be made of the conflict between science and religion at the time, and hence the antagonism to the religious claims of contemporary druids, which then fed back into views about the past.
Nonetheless while it's clear that I don't agree with some of Stout's conclusions I still think there's much to like about the book. For a start it's readable. It's clear that he's written the book because he wants to be understood and make a difference rather than pad out a CV. It's also well-argued. I might not agree with the arguments, but it's not a matter of plucking ideas from the air. Stout clearly has done the reading, got the references and uses them to back up his claims. Hence while it is possible to disagree with him, it's not a good idea to simply dismiss his work. It's also a genuinely novel piece of work. There are many books which take to a greater or less extent the whole of the history of archaeology as their subject. Quite a few a clearly attempts to produce theory textbooks in a very dull way. In contrast the more focussed approach Stout takes enables him to look more closely the processes that created academic archaeology. If anything I'd like to see an tighter focus still. There are the seeds of four interesting books on the development of archaeology. Most importantly it's the least telelogical history of archaeology I've read. Many histories of archaeology could be subtitled How did we get to the wonderful state we're in today?. This book in contrast is focussed on the inter-war years rather than the eventual outcome. This puts him smartly out of step with anyone who mistakenly believes history of archaeology is a branch of archaeology rather than history of science.
It's not the one book you need if you're studying the history of archaeology in the UK, but it is perhaps the one book you need to read as a companion to a history of archaeology.
- Creating Prehistory at WorldCat
- Creating Prehistory at LibraryThing
- Creating Prehistory at Blackwell's
- A review at Times Higher Education
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Whiteley, D.S. and Hays-Gilpin, K. 2008 'Religions beyond Icon, Burial and Monument: An Introduction', Belief in the Past: Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Religion. eds. D.S.Whiteley and K.Hays-Gilpin, Left Coast Press:California, 11–22.
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Loot by Sharon Waxman
StandardIn short, the best archaeopolitics book I've read since Edward Fox's Sacred Geography. I was kindly sent a review copy by the publishers and I have a feeling that they were hoping for a bit more than that, so I'll add a bit more.
It's subtitled "The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World" The ancient world here is pretty much Greece, Rome and Egypt, which means she doesn't have a lot to say about the stripping of sites in Africa, the Americas or Asia. To some extent that's a bit of a shame, but by focussing tightly on a few examples Waxman is able to go into the details of how the market for illicit antiquities works. You have to keep a close eye on what's happening as I get the impression that one of the inspirations for the antiquities trade was the three-card trick. The book is four parts. She opens by looking at Egypt and the attitude of the Louvre.
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The best new archaeology books?
StandardI'll put this link up before I forget. Michael E. Smith is looking for what you think are the best new archaeology books. It made me realise that this year I don't think I've really taken much time out to read for pleasure. I've got a couple of new Anthony Aveni books which I haven't had chance to read yet. However, I think top of the list will be Adam Stout's Creating prehistory : Druids, ley hunters and archaeologists in pre-war Britain. I attended a talk by him when it was work in progress and I thought it was an interesting take on the history of archaeology. Quite a few histories emphasis the development of scientific progress in archaeology, the context being what came before and what when after. Stout's view strikes me as being a bit more, archaeological for want of a better word. He was emphasising the social context of archaeology including the actions of antiquarians. I can't remember if it was him or Ronald Hutton who suggested that, in the UK, archaeology supplanted antiquarian use of prehistoric sites — rather than grew from it.
I don't think it's going to be a universally popular book and I'll be surprised if I agree with all of it. On the other hand I think he'll have had a go at string an argument together and, last time I read something by him, he's capable of writing without it being like sandpaper on the eyes. Having said that the first sentence of the sample chapter looks odd. Hopefully he explained what the Universal Bond was in an earlier chapter.
- The sample chapter: Stonehenge: A mecca of Celtic Idealism
- The record on Worldcat: Find it in a library near you
- A review from Times Higher Education
Anyway, if you have an opinion an what you think is the best new archaeology book, leave him a comment.
On Deep History and the Brain
StandardLet's begin at the very beginning Smail on Deep History at Times Higher Education.
Thoughts on The God Delusion
StandardThe God Delusion. Photo (cc) somefool.
I bought this a while ago when it came out in paperback because Sainsbury's had it on special offer. I've read it, but haven't commented on it for a few reasons. Partly because I seem to have bought a faulty copy. The God Delusion is a vicious angry screed against religion, or so I'm told. I wouldn't know because my version is, in contrast, polite and reasoned. By and large that makes it a more dangerous book, because although I don't think there's anything particularly new in it, it is presented well and puts forward both a positive view of atheism and why Dawkins thinks religion is a problem. To the joy of theists though there are a couple of disappointing sections.
One is use of the term Neville Chamberlain Atheist. I don't like it. It's inelegant. It's used describe those who would appease relgious demands by equating them with the British Prime Minister who initially appeased Hitler, but then took a stand and decided to take Britain to war, despite a large number of people in Parliament still favouring appeasement. It's not just the equation with Neville Chamberlain that I don't think works. There's an unspoken implication that fundamentalists are similar to Nazis. I don't think that works either. The Nazis were openly unpleasant people and you couldn't be a Nazi if you belonged to certain groups. Fundamentalists are in contrast more insidious. They have room to police everyone in their belief system. Whether or not Dawkins is to blame for the term is uncertain from the book, because he also cites Michael Ruse in this section so it's possible he got the term from him. I haven't read Ruse's article because it appeared in Playboy and I'm not really willing to ask for it on inter-library loan. Orac has said something similar (about Neville Chamberlain, not Playboy), and Saint Gasoline disagrees. Personally I'd argue that the term should be something more like Tony Blair Atheist after someone who respects another's beliefs despite the lack of evidence and assists them in inflicting damage on other people because of faith and poltical expediency.
While that was inelegant another section was truly bad. I didn't like is the bit on God as a meme at all. He describes an experiment similar to Chinese Whispers. In one experiment a group of children demonstrate how to make a Chinese junk from paper by origami to another group. This group then teaches a third generation and so on. In another experiment one group of children draw a junk and pass the drawing along to a second generation to copy and so on. He predicts that by the time you get to the tenth generation the origami method will still be transmitted with high fidelity whilst the drawing will have mutuated. Similarly because religion is an imitated series of practices rather than an end product religion too can be transmitted by a meme.
This sounds reasonable, or at least it did in 1999 when Dawkins first described the experiment in the preface to The Meme Machine. He hadn't actually run the experiment at the time but you can't do everything. Moving on to 2006 and the Junk appears again. Dawkins still hasn't done the experiment but nonetheless argues from the results about how culture propagates. This bothers me deeply because I thought that one of the things about experiments is that you need to do them. I appreciate he's a busy man and he may not have the time. But he has chosen to write on the subject. Would it be reasonable for me to talk about heredity based on my thought experiment? Would it still be reasonable for me to recycle the same thought experiment seven years later without doing it? If a creationist did this they would be mocked mercilessly. Thankfully the meme concept has absolutely no bearing on the existence or otherwise of gods, but it sticks out as a low point in what is otherwise a very good book. I suppose this would at least indicate that I'm thinking about his arguments rather than purely accepting them in his authority, which is just as well as the rest of his arguments are all sound and rational.
One of the sections I particularly liked was on the Hitler was an Atheist / Christian argument. I assumed Hitler was a Christian because he said so. This isn't enough for Dawkins and here he goes much more deeply into Hitler's beliefs and concludes that the evidence is shaky enough that you can't be certain he was a Christian. He may have used Christianity as a vehicle for his beliefs, but it wasn't necessarily a belief he shared. This is where he demonstrates that he has a right to be indignant when people refer to him as a fundamentalist. This is much more representative of the thought in the book and the two points I bring up above cover around six pages of the four hundred and twenty in the book.
I'll be honest it's not radically changed my view of atheism, because it expresses a lot of what I thought anyway. However if you live in a less atheist-friendly environment like Texas I can see how publishing books like this and outing yourself can help. While Dawkins is firmly anti-religion he is also pro-human and the world might be a better place if a few more people were like that.


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Geographic Range
Parts of India and Southeast Asia, including Sumatra and Borneo. Asian elephants were formerly widely distributed south of the Himalayas, throughout Southeast Asia, and in China as far north as the Yangtze River.
Asian elephants mainly use scrub forest, although their habitat can vary. They can be found in the jungle, but generally on the edge where open, grassy areas are accessible. They prefer areas that combine grass, low woody plants, and forest. Elephants rarely forage in one area for more than a few days in a row.
- Habitat Regions
- tropical
- terrestrial
- Terrestrial Biomes
- savanna or grassland
- forest
- scrub forest
- Other Habitat Features
- agricultural
Physical Description
Head and body length is 550 to 640 cm and shoulder height is 250 to 300 cm. The skin is thick and dry, and the few hairs are stiff. Skin color varies from grey to brown. In contrast to African elephants, Asian elephants have ears that are much smaller, the back is not as sloping, the head rather than the shoulders is the highest part of the body, the trunk has a single finger-like projection rather than two, and the hind foot has 4 nails rather than 3. The cylindrical feet consist of reduced phalanges resting on a pad of elastic tissue. The cerebral hemisphere is quite convoluted, resembling that of humans and dolphins. The elephant's teeth are unique. They have a limited number of very large teeth that move forward in the mouth as the animal ages; as the front teeth are worn away with use they are replaced from behind. If an elephant lives long enough to have used up all of its teeth it then starves to death. In males, a pair of incisors is elongated (growing 17 cm per year throughout the animal's life) into tusks. Unlike African elephant females, Asian females do not bear tusks.
- Other Physical Features
- endothermic
- homoiothermic
- bilateral symmetry
- Sexual Dimorphism
- male larger
- ornamentation
- Range mass
- 3000 to 5000 kg
- 6607.93 to 11013.22 lb
- Range length
- 550 to 640 cm
- 216.54 to 251.97 in
- Average basal metabolic rate
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- Mating System
- polygynous
Female Asian elephants bear a single calf (usually) after a gestation of more than a year and a half (18 to 22 months). Their estrus cycle is about 22 days, out of which they are receptive to copulation on only one day, the first day of estrus. There is no seasonality in their reproduction. Females on good quality habitats give birth every three to four years, while the interbirth interval can be much longer among females inhabiting poor quality areas. Newborns weigh about 100 kg and can stand soon after birth. The infant may nurse from its mother or from other lactating females. After a few days it can follow its mother as she goes about her normal activities. Young begin to eat some grass after several months but may continue nursing for 18 months. They also eat their mother's dung, which contains nutrients as well as the symbiotic bacteria that aid in the digestion of cellulose. Mothers continue to supervise their young for several years after weaning. Both sexes become sexually mature at about 14 years of age, but males cannot mate until they can dominate other adult males. Males leave their natal herd at this age, but females remain with their female relatives throughout their lives.
- Key Reproductive Features
- iteroparous
- year-round breeding
- gonochoric/gonochoristic/dioecious (sexes separate)
- sexual
- viviparous
- Breeding interval
- Under the best of circumstances Asian elephants give birth every three to four years.
- Breeding season
- Births may occur throughout the year.
- Average number of offspring
- 1
- Average number of offspring
- 1
- AnAge
- Range gestation period
- 18 to 22 months
- Average weaning age
- 48 months
- Average time to independence
- 48 months
- Average age at sexual or reproductive maturity (female)
- 14 years
- Average age at sexual or reproductive maturity (female)
Sex: female - 3287 days
- AnAge
- Average age at sexual or reproductive maturity (female)
- Average age at sexual or reproductive maturity (male)
- 14 years
- Average age at sexual or reproductive maturity (male)
Sex: male - 3287 days
- AnAge
- Average age at sexual or reproductive maturity (male)
- Parental Investment
- provisioning
- female
- female
- female
- female
- female
- female
- female
- post-independence association with parents
- extended period of juvenile learning
The lifespan of Asian elephants is about 70 years.
- Average lifespan
Status: wild - 70 years
- Average lifespan
- Average lifespan
Status: wild - 78.0 years
- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
- Average lifespan
- Average lifespan
Status: wild - 70.0 years
- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
- Average lifespan
- Average lifespan
Status: wild - 40.0 years
- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
- Average lifespan
- Average lifespan
Status: captivity - 69.0 years
- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
- Average lifespan
- Average lifespan
Status: wild - 60.0 years
- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
- Average lifespan
- Average lifespan
Status: captivity - 80.0 years
- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
- Average lifespan
- Average lifespan
Status: captivity - 77.0 years
- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
- Average lifespan
Asian elephants are quite social. Cows form stable herds of about 20 or more of their female relatives. These matriarchal groups are led by the oldest female, who coordinates the herd's movements in search of food and water. Herds may temporarily break up into smaller subgroups, which maintain contact through low frequency long-distance vocalizations. Males are sometimes found with these herds, especially when a female is in estrus. Generally only the dominant male mates with the females. Males may travel alone or in temporary male groups. This species does not appear to be territorial. In the past these animals migrated seasonally, but human activities such as agriculture have now made this virtually impossible. Like other large mammals, elephants are more tolerant of cold than of excessive heat. They spend the hottest part of the day in the shade, and dissipate heat through their ears, which they flap at different speeds according to how hot they are. At full charge, an elephant can run over 48 km/hr.
- Key Behaviors
- terricolous
- diurnal
- motile
- nomadic
- social
- dominance hierarchies
Home Range
Males have home ranges of about 15 sq km, and herds of females of about 30 sq km (larger in the dry season).
Communication and Perception
Elephants use their tusks for a variety of purposes: to dig for water, remove bark from trees, maneuver fallen trees and branches, mark trees, rest their trunk on, fight with, and, in domestic animals, for various kinds of work. Elephants are left or right tusked, just as humans are left or right handed. Their trunks, which are formed by the combination of the elongated nose and upper lip, are also very useful. At the tip is a single, finger-like extension that is very sensitive and can be used for precise manipulation of objects. Trunks are used in eating, drinking, smelling and breathing, touching, vocalizing, washing, dusting (throwing dirt onto the back, possibly as a way of deterring insects), and fighting. The senses of touch and hearing are acute, but eyesight is somewhat poor. Young elephants follow their mothers or older sisters by holding on to their tails. When in danger, elephants run with their tails held up, which may signal the danger to the other members of the herd.
- Other Communication Modes
- pheromones
- vibrations
- Perception Channels
- visual
- tactile
- acoustic
- vibrations
- chemical
Food Habits
These elephants eat a wide variety of species of vegetation. They prefer grasses, but they also consume bark, roots, leaves, and stems of trees, vines, and shrubs. Most of an adult's activities involve moving toward and eating food. They eat in the morning, evening, and night but rest during the hottest part of the day. An average day's intake is 150 kg of vegetation, of which only about 44% is actually digested (with the aid of symbiotic gut bacteria). Elephants eat long grasses by plucking a "handful" with their trunk and putting the bundle in their mouth. To eat short grasses, they kick up a pile of dirt with their feet and sweep the grass into their mouth, again with the end of their trunk. Shrubs are eaten by breaking off twigs with the trunk and inserting them into the mouth. To eat the bark off larger branches, they hold the branch with their trunk and rotate it while scraping off the bark with their teeth - similar to the way people eat corn on the cob. Elephants also drink at least once a day (140 liters of water may be consumed in just one day) and so are never very far from a water supply.
- Plant Foods
- leaves
- roots and tubers
- wood, bark, or stems
When a potential predator such as a lion or tiger threatens a calf, the adults form a defensive circle with the calf in the middle. Adult elephants are probably not susceptible to predation by any species other than humans.
- Known Predators
- tigers (Panthera tigris)
- Asiatic lions (Panthera leo persica)
Economic Importance for Humans: Positive
Asian elephants have been domesticated for centuries. Individuals can be trained to reliably perform a wide variety of tasks. They are used as draft animals, for hunting, and for transportation. Ivory from their tusks is used in the manufacture of a number of items, including jewelry.
- Positive Impacts
- body parts are source of valuable material
- ecotourism
Economic Importance for Humans: Negative
Elephants enjoy cultivated foods such as bananas and sugar cane, and so can become crop pests in some areas. Wild elephants are can be aggressive to humans and dangerous.
- Negative Impacts
- crop pest
Conservation Status
Asian elephants have a long history of being hunted by people, originally for food, later for domestic stock and ivory. Poaching for ivory continues to devastate wild populations. They also suffer due to habitat loss caused by agriculture and deforestation. Centuries ago they disappeared from southwestern Asia and most of China. Currently there are only an estimated 28,000 to 42,000 wild Asian elephants remaining. Asian elephants are kept as domestic animals and can be successfully bred in captivity to a limited extent.
Asian elephants are on Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species and are considered endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
- IUCN Red List
More information
- US Federal List
- Endangered
- Appendix I
Deborah Ciszek (author), University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
- acoustic
uses sound to communicate
- agricultural
living in landscapes dominated by human agriculture.
- bilateral symmetry
having body symmetry such that the animal can be divided in one plane into two mirror-image halves. Animals with bilateral symmetry have dorsal and ventral sides, as well as anterior and posterior ends. Synapomorphy of the Bilateria.
- chemical
uses smells or other chemicals to communicate
- diurnal
- active during the day, 2. lasting for one day.
- dominance hierarchies
ranking system or pecking order among members of a long-term social group, where dominance status affects access to resources or mates
- ecotourism
humans benefit economically by promoting tourism that focuses on the appreciation of natural areas or animals. Ecotourism implies that there are existing programs that profit from the appreciation of natural areas or animals.
- endothermic
animals that use metabolically generated heat to regulate body temperature independently of ambient temperature. Endothermy is a synapomorphy of the Mammalia, although it may have arisen in a (now extinct) synapsid ancestor; the fossil record does not distinguish these possibilities. Convergent in birds.
- folivore
an animal that mainly eats leaves.
- forest
forest biomes are dominated by trees, otherwise forest biomes can vary widely in amount of precipitation and seasonality.
- herbivore
An animal that eats mainly plants or parts of plants.
- iteroparous
offspring are produced in more than one group (litters, clutches, etc.) and across multiple seasons (or other periods hospitable to reproduction). Iteroparous animals must, by definition, survive over multiple seasons (or periodic condition changes).
- motile
having the capacity to move from one place to another.
- native range
the area in which the animal is naturally found, the region in which it is endemic.
- nomadic
generally wanders from place to place, usually within a well-defined range.
- oriental
found in the oriental region of the world. In other words, India and southeast Asia.
- pheromones
chemicals released into air or water that are detected by and responded to by other animals of the same species
- polygynous
having more than one female as a mate at one time
- scrub forest
scrub forests develop in areas that experience dry seasons.
- sexual
reproduction that includes combining the genetic contribution of two individuals, a male and a female
- sexual ornamentation
one of the sexes (usually males) has special physical structures used in courting the other sex or fighting the same sex. For example: antlers, elongated tails, special spurs.
- social
associates with others of its species; forms social groups.
- tactile
uses touch to communicate
- terrestrial
Living on the ground.
- tropical
the region of the earth that surrounds the equator, from 23.5 degrees north to 23.5 degrees south.
- tropical savanna and grassland
A terrestrial biome. Savannas are grasslands with scattered individual trees that do not form a closed canopy. Extensive savannas are found in parts of subtropical and tropical Africa and South America, and in Australia.
- savanna
A grassland with scattered trees or scattered clumps of trees, a type of community intermediate between grassland and forest. See also Tropical savanna and grassland biome.
- temperate grassland
A terrestrial biome found in temperate latitudes (>23.5° N or S latitude). Vegetation is made up mostly of grasses, the height and species diversity of which depend largely on the amount of moisture available. Fire and grazing are important in the long-term maintenance of grasslands.
- vibrations
movements of a hard surface that are produced by animals as signals to others
- visual
uses sight to communicate
- viviparous
reproduction in which fertilization and development take place within the female body and the developing embryo derives nourishment from the female.
- year-round breeding
breeding takes place throughout the year
Nowak, R.M. and J.L. Paradiso. 1983. Walker's Mammals of the World. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
Shoshani, J. and J.F. Eisenberg. 1982. Elephas maximus. Mammalian Species No. 182, The American Society of Mammalogists.


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