ASIATIC ELEPHANT (Elephas maximus)
They are Chtiwan’s largest animal, with fully grown adults weighing up to 6 tonnes. Once common in the Terai, wild elephants are now a rare sigh, with only a few small groups remaining in southern border areas of Nepal.

Even so elephants play an integral part in the life of any visitors visiting Machan Wildlife Resort, for the Resort maintains a corps of eight domesticated and trained animals, which are in action every day of the tourist season, ferrying people across the river to the resort or moving gently through the grasslands and jungle on game-spotting safaris. They live in a compound of their own a couple of minutes’ walk from the resort and a visit to their lines is a highlight of every visitors stay.