Show Elephants in Two Races Elephants may be broadly grouped into two races the Asiatic or Indian elephant which is the common ele ele- elephant elephant of the circus and the larger cared bigger-cared African elephant who includes among his kind a local race of pigmy elephants living in inthe inthe inthe the hinterland of the Congo and standing only about five fire feet high The white elephants in Burma and Siam are albino individuals of the Asiatic elephant race Some sixty of them have been recorded in his his- history history tory mostly of a mottled pink skin and pinkish eyes due to the ab ab- absence absence ab- ab absence sence of body pigment a character character- characteristic characteristic characteristic of albinos |