BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — A count of elephant dung revealed a surprisingly large endangered elephant population — more than 600 — in Malaysia’s biggest national park, researchers said Thursday. The number of endangered Asian elephants had always been a mystery as researchers tried to visually count every one of the frequently shifting crowd in the dense jungle. But the new method of counting dung piles came up with an estimate of 631 animals living in Taman Negara National Park, the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society and Malaysia Department of Wildlife and National Parks said.—-Contact the Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]