Table 1.

Extant mammal species with the largest gains in ED over the past 130 000 years (see figure 2 for the full distribution).

species	common name	ED extant	ED pre-extinction	ED gain
Elephas maximus	Asian elephant	47.69	10.00	37.69
Solenodon cubanus	Cuban solenodon/almiqui	66.45	32.60	33.85
Dugong dugon	dugong	60.50	30.86	29.64
Loxodonta africana	African bush elephant	47.69	19.86	27.83
Macrotis lagotis	greater bilby	45.85	19.73	26.12
Tachyglossus aculeatus	short-beaked echidna	74.61	49.04	25.57
Hippopotamus amphibius	common hippopotamus	33.28	9.14	24.14
Zaglossus bruijnii	western long-beaked echidna	39.05	16.62	22.43
Tapirus indicus	Malayan tapir	40.52	20.37	20.15
Choloepus didactylus	Linnaeus's two-toed sloth	25.59	7.31	18.27