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A female African bush elephant skeleton on display at the Museum of Osteology, Oklahoma City. 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
National Geographic Special 51596 Video Classics: Life of the Treasure Chest 1989 1994 60 0-7922-2454-X National Geographic Special 51598 AFRICA: WILDS OF MADAGASCAR 1988 1989 51680 Geo Kids: Cool Cats, Raindrops, and Things That Live in Holes 1994 500 7922-2678-X National Geographic Kids Video Columbia TriStar Home Video 51621
Another extinct genus of elephant, Palaeoloxodon, is also recognised, which appears to have close affinities with African elephants and to have hybridised with African forest elephants. [13] Some species of the extinct Palaeoloxodon were even larger, all exceeding 4 metres in height and 10 tonnes in body mass, with P. namadicus being a ...
An African Elephant named Madhubala was finally reunited with her sisters after 15 years. Madhubala experienced poor conditions in captivity at Karachi Zoo in Pakistan.After the death of her other ...
Really Wild Animals is an American direct-to-video children's nature television series, hosted by Dudley Moore as Spin, an anthropomorphic globe. [1] Comprising 13 episodes, it was released between March 2, 1994 [2] and October 21, 1997. [3] It was nominated for five national Daytime Emmy Awards and won one.
African elephants like Corra and Nadirah can be found in 37 countries in Africa, according to the World Wildlife Fund. They use their trunks for communication and handling objects.
The African forest elephant was long considered to be a subspecies of the African elephant, together with the African bush elephant. Morphological and DNA analysis showed that they are two distinct species. [4] [5] The taxonomic status of the African pygmy elephant (Loxodonta pumilio) was uncertain for a long time.
When looking at an African elephant and an Asian elephant side-by-side, you can really tell the differences in their head shapes and tasks. African elephants generally have much larger tusks than ...