The Tabin Wildlife Reserve is providing tourists with an exciting visit with its extraordinary panorama and the presence of hundreds of pygmy elephants that enables them to see the mammals up close, but at a safe distance.
Tabin Wildlife Holidays general manager Lawrence Chin said a video of the presence of hundreds of pygmy elephants that went viral on social media was recorded about two days ago.
He said the video was recorded in an area which is believed to be the migration route of the pachyderm.
"It (the presence of the elephant) does not affect the safety of tourists. The last time hundreds of pygmy elephants were recorded to have gathered here was about 10 years ago.
“Normally, these elephants move in a herd of only 20 to 50 and they usually spend their time in Tabin eating plants and then moved away,” he said when contacted by Bernama.
He said the Tabin Wildlife Reserve is located in eastern Sabah and about 450 kilometres from Kota Kinabalu.
“It covers a land area of about 121,405.69 hectares, making it the largest wildlife reserve in Malaysia,” he said, adding that the Borneo pygmy elephant or its scientific name Elephas Maximus, is a unique sub-species of the Asian elephant that is only found in the Borneo archipelago.
He said the gentle giant animal is now a threatened species in the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List.
Source: BERNAMA News Agency