verb barraging. hound â Nautical. either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a mast, for supporting the trestletrees, that support an upper mast at its heel. Compare cheek (def 12). bomb â A bomb is a device which explodes and damages or destroys a large area.
Size: Asian elephants live in large blocks of forest near water sources and grasslands, habitat that has been greatly reduced in the last half century. They inhabit India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar (Burma), Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Bangladesh, and southern China.n the wild, Asian elephants may live up to about 60 years but most do not live that long. Asian elephants once ranged from Iraq east through Asia south of the Himalayas, into southern China and possibly south to Java.
So-called pygmy elephants live in both Africa and Asia. The African pygmy elephant, formerly described as Loxodonta pumilio , is currently considered to be a tiny morph of the African forest elephant (L. cyclotis). The Borneo elephant (Elephas maximus borneensis), a well-documented variety of elephant, is also called pygmy elephant..