Origins still a jumbo question

Looking into the past: Goossens, co-leader of the study of Borneo elephants, during the collaring of Gading in the Kinabatangan.

KOTA KINABALU: A scientific study is shedding new light on how Borneo got its elephants.

The mysterious origin of the Bornean pygmy elephant – a subspecies of the Asian elephant which only exists in a small region – has long been debated.