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The African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is one of the two living species of African elephant. It is native to humid tropical forests in West Africa and the Congo Basin. It is the smallest of the three living elephant species, reaching a shoulder height of 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in). As with other African elephants, both sexes have straight ...
There are currently around 415,000 African elephants in the world (African bush and African forest combined), but there are only approximately 40,000 to 50,000 Asian elephants left.
Range map of the African Elephants (Loxodonta) The genus consists of the wide-ranging Savanna Elephant ( Loxodonta africana ) and the Forest Elephant ( Loxodonta cyclotis ), which is restricted to moist tropical habitats.
The African bush elephant is listed as Endangered and the African forest elephant as Critically Endangered on the respective IUCN Red Lists. [ 58 ] [ 59 ] Based on vegetation types that provide suitable habitat for African elephants, it was estimated that in the early 19th century a maximum of 26,913,000 African elephants might have been ...
African elephants are Earth's largest land animals, remarkable mammals that are very intelligent and highly social. Fresh evidence of this comes in a study that documents alarming population ...
There are approximately 415,000 African elephants left in the world. The World Wildlife Foundation said that, in 2016, experts estimated their population had fallen by 111,000 over the course of a ...
At the Dzanga saline Bai (a forest clearing), more than 4000 elephants have been counted and identified over the past years. From a platform at the edge of this Bai, visitors get the chance to observe between 30 and 150 elephants at any one time! Date: 23 October 2015, 15:24: Source: Forest Elephant: Author: Joris Komen
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, [147] and African forest elephants were listed as Critically Endangered in the same ...