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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 ...
The forest elephant population is estimated to be about a third that of savanna elephants. Poaching has affected forest elephants disproportionately and has ravaged populations of both species in ...
Both African elephant species live in family units comprising several adult cows, their daughters and their subadult sons. Each family unit is led by an older cow known as the matriarch. [35] [36] African forest elephant groups are less cohesive than African bush elephant groups, probably because of the lack of predators. [36]
A bull elephant in musth, wild or otherwise, is extremely dangerous to humans, other elephants, and other species. Bull elephants in musth have killed keepers/ mahouts , as well as other bull elephants, female elephants, and calves (the last usually inadvertently or accidentally in what is often called "herd infighting").
The African forest elephant is critically endangered, and the African savanna elephant is endangered. The two species had previously been grouped together as a single species and were classified ...
In Namibia, which has around 21,000 elephants, according to a 2022 survey, some areas have so many they have become “almost intolerable for people,” Brown said, with elephants destroying crops ...
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 ...
The first to be found was an eight-year-old male found lying in the Panda Masuue forest reserve on 24 August 2020, only to be followed by another 10 elephants found within the next two days, many ...