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.
There is hope in India that if the conservation programme works well with the support of international agencies, Asian elephants in India will multiply and make India a wild-life-rich nation. At the present time, the entire world has just 35,000 wild Asian elephants, out of which 25,000 are in Indian forests. Kerala, the southern state, has the maximum number of elephants in captivity. Elephants are used in Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra for all festivals, be they Hindu or Muslim.