The Asian Elephant is a huge land animal that is found all the way from Sri Lanka, India through Indochina to Malaysia and Sumatra. Nowadays, most Asian elephants are used extensively for labour and very few are left in the wild. This mammal has very strong social bonds and lives in family groups headed by an elephant cow called a matriach. Bull elephants will occasionally join the group. Elephants are excellent swimmers. Elephants have few natural enemies except for man. They are in extreme danger of extinction due to loss of habitat and poaching as they are killed for their valuable ivory tusks.