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The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), also known as the African savanna elephant, is a species of elephant native to sub-Saharan Africa. It is one of three extant elephant species and, along with the African forest elephant , one of two extant species of African elephant .
The first scientific description of the African elephant was written in 1797 by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, who proposed the scientific name Elephas africanus. [3] Loxodonte was proposed as a generic name for the African elephant by Frédéric Cuvier in 1825. An anonymous author used the Latinized spelling Loxodonta in 1827. [4]
A family of African forest elephants in the Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve wetlands. This species is considered to be critically endangered. African bush elephants were listed as Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 2021, [145] and African forest elephants were listed as Critically Endangered in the same ...
The savanna elephant populations fell by about 70% on average at the surveyed sites and the forest elephant populations dropped by about 90% on average at the surveyed sites, with poaching and ...
African elephants call each other and respond to individual names — something that few wild animals do, according to new research published Monday. Scientists believe that animals with complex ...
A new study involving wild African savannah elephants in Kenya lends support to this idea. The researchers analyzed vocalizations - mostly rumbles generated by elephants using their vocal cords ...
Articles related to the African elephants (genus Loxodonta), a group comprising two living elephant species, the African bush elephant (L. africana) and the smaller African forest elephant (L. cyclotis).
Desert elephants at the dried up Huab River in Namibia Female spraying sand to keep cool while standing guard over her calf, Damaraland, Namibia. Desert elephants or desert-adapted elephants are not a distinct species of elephant but are African bush elephants (Loxodonta africana) that have made their homes in the Namib and Sahara deserts in Africa.