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The existence of elephants in ancient China is attested both by archaeological evidence and by depictions in Chinese artwork. Long thought to belong to an extinct subspecies of the Asian elephant named Elephas maximus rubridens, they lived in Central and Southern China before the 14th century BC. They once occurred as far north as Anyang, Henan in Northern China. The elephant is mentioned in the earliest received texts, including the Shijing, Liji, and Zuozhuan. The oracle bone script and bronzeware script glyphs for elephant are pictographic depictions of an animal with a long trunk. Their modern descendant is the regular script character 象 (Standard Modern Chinese, xiàng).

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  • The existence of elephants in ancient China is attested both by archaeological evidence and by depictions in Chinese artwork. Long thought to belong to an extinct subspecies of the Asian elephant named Elephas maximus rubridens, they lived in Central and Southern China before the 14th century BC. They once occurred as far north as Anyang, Henan in Northern China. The elephant is mentioned in the earliest received texts, including the Shijing, Liji, and Zuozhuan. The oracle bone script and bronzeware script glyphs for elephant are pictographic depictions of an animal with a long trunk. Their modern descendant is the regular script character 象 (Standard Modern Chinese, xiàng). In December 2011, a study by a team of scientists from China reported that the elephant living in China in ancient times (Shang and Zhou dynasties) could not have been a subspecies of the Asian elephant, as previously thought, but probably belonged to the genus Palaeoloxodon. P. namadicus were distributed across Asia, but it is unclear if the mysterious elephants of northern China were remnants of P. namadicus or a unique species of their own. This conclusion was reached after studying remains of Chinese elephant molars and tusks from the Holocene epoch, as well as examining ritual bronzes from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, which all depicted elephants with two 'fingers' on the tip of their trunk (whereas the Indian elephant only has one 'finger'). Fossil elephant experts Victoria Herridge and Adrian Lister disagree with the assignment, stating that the claimed diagnostic dental features are actually contrast artifacts, created due to the low resolution of the figures in the scientific paper, and are not evident in better quality photographs. Elephants still survived in the southwestern provinces of China after the extinction of the Chinese elephant, but they are of a different subspecies, the Indian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus). A native population of these elephants remains in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province. (en)
  • El elefante chino, también llamado elefante de colmillos rosados (Elephas maximus rubridens), es una de las dos subespecies extintas del elefante asiático. Se extinguió en el siglo XV d. C. Su descripción científica ocurrió en el año 1950 y fue efectuada por el zoólogo esrilanqués (1900-1976). (es)
  • L'elefante della Cina (Elephas maximus rubridens), noto anche come elefante dalle zanne rosa, è un'antica sottospecie di elefante asiatico vissuta in Cina centrale e meridionale fino al XIV secolo a.C. In tempi ancora più remoti si spingeva a nord fino ad Anyang (Henan), nella Cina settentrionale, ma la caccia eccessiva per il commercio dell'avorio ne ridusse rapidamente la popolazione; l'ultimo avvistamento venne effettuato nella Provincia del Guangxi, nella Cina sud-occidentale. Gli elefanti sopravvivono tuttora in Cina, nelle province sud-occidentali, ma appartengono ad una sottospecie differente, l'elefante indiano, Elephas maximus indicus. (it)
  • 중국코끼리(Elephas maximus rubridens)는 아시아코끼리의 아종으로, 중국 중부 및 남부 지방에서 서식하다 기원전 14세기 경 멸종한 것으로 추정된다. 중국코끼리의 최북단 서식지는 허난성 안양시 일대였다. 중국코끼리는 아시아코끼리의 다른 아종인 인도코끼리와는 구별되는 상아 구조를 갖고 있는데, 상나라와 주나라 시기에 중국코끼리의 상아 구조와 일치하는 청동 코끼리 조각들이 존재하는 것으로 보아, 당시까지 중국코끼리가 생존했을 것으로 보는 학계의 의견도 있다. (ko)
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  • El elefante chino, también llamado elefante de colmillos rosados (Elephas maximus rubridens), es una de las dos subespecies extintas del elefante asiático. Se extinguió en el siglo XV d. C. Su descripción científica ocurrió en el año 1950 y fue efectuada por el zoólogo esrilanqués (1900-1976). (es)
  • L'elefante della Cina (Elephas maximus rubridens), noto anche come elefante dalle zanne rosa, è un'antica sottospecie di elefante asiatico vissuta in Cina centrale e meridionale fino al XIV secolo a.C. In tempi ancora più remoti si spingeva a nord fino ad Anyang (Henan), nella Cina settentrionale, ma la caccia eccessiva per il commercio dell'avorio ne ridusse rapidamente la popolazione; l'ultimo avvistamento venne effettuato nella Provincia del Guangxi, nella Cina sud-occidentale. Gli elefanti sopravvivono tuttora in Cina, nelle province sud-occidentali, ma appartengono ad una sottospecie differente, l'elefante indiano, Elephas maximus indicus. (it)
  • 중국코끼리(Elephas maximus rubridens)는 아시아코끼리의 아종으로, 중국 중부 및 남부 지방에서 서식하다 기원전 14세기 경 멸종한 것으로 추정된다. 중국코끼리의 최북단 서식지는 허난성 안양시 일대였다. 중국코끼리는 아시아코끼리의 다른 아종인 인도코끼리와는 구별되는 상아 구조를 갖고 있는데, 상나라와 주나라 시기에 중국코끼리의 상아 구조와 일치하는 청동 코끼리 조각들이 존재하는 것으로 보아, 당시까지 중국코끼리가 생존했을 것으로 보는 학계의 의견도 있다. (ko)
  • The existence of elephants in ancient China is attested both by archaeological evidence and by depictions in Chinese artwork. Long thought to belong to an extinct subspecies of the Asian elephant named Elephas maximus rubridens, they lived in Central and Southern China before the 14th century BC. They once occurred as far north as Anyang, Henan in Northern China. The elephant is mentioned in the earliest received texts, including the Shijing, Liji, and Zuozhuan. The oracle bone script and bronzeware script glyphs for elephant are pictographic depictions of an animal with a long trunk. Their modern descendant is the regular script character 象 (Standard Modern Chinese, xiàng). (en)
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  • Elephas maximus rubridens (es)
  • Elephants in ancient China (en)
  • Elephas maximus rubridens (it)
  • 중국코끼리 (ko)
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