PETALING JAYA: A dozen Borneo “pygmy elephants” of Sabah will find themselves in Chinese and Japanese zoos barely a month after it was confirmed that the animals belonged to a new subspecies.
It is learnt that the animals were captured from the wild by a renowned animal trader in Sabah after he purportedly convinced the Sabah Wildlife Department to allow them to be exported.
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