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Yoyo (c. 1970 - 28 December 2024) [1] was an African elephant known as the world's longest-living elephant, who died at the Barcelona Zoo at approximately 54 years of age. [ 2 ] Biography
Members of the species were larger than any living elephant. A large mostly complete male specimen of P. recki atavus [3] from Koobi Fora, Kenya, suggested to have been approximately 40 years old when it died, was estimated in a 2016 study to have measured 4.27 metres (14.0 ft) tall at the shoulder and weighed 12.3 tonnes (27,000 lb), [10] with the tusks of some P. recki individuals reaching 4 ...
Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures North African elephant: Loxodonta africana pharaoensis: North Africa: Neolithic rock art indicates that the African bush elephant inhabited much of the Sahara desert and North Africa at the beginning of the Holocene, and Ancient authors wrote that it was present in the Atlas Mountains, the Red Sea coast, and Nubia until the first few ...
These marine assets form part of the plan to expand the 1,640 km 2 Addo National Elephant Park into the 3,600 km 2 Greater Addo Elephant National Park. The expanded park contains five of South Africa's seven major vegetation zones ( biomes ), and is also the only park to house Africa's "Big 7" ( elephant , rhinoceros , lion , buffalo , leopard ...
The genus contains the largest known species of elephants, over 4 metres (13 ft) tall at the shoulders and over 13 tonnes (29,000 lb) in weight, representing among the largest land mammals ever, including the African Palaeoloxodon recki, the European straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) and the South Asian Palaeoloxodon namadicus.
Just like kids, animals love to play. Dok Gaew is an adolescent male elephant who lives at the Save Elephant Foundation (SEF) in Thailand. He was rescued in 2017 after he was orphaned shortly ...
African forest elephants in a waterhole Group of African forest elephants digging at a mineral lick A female with her calf drinking from a spring The African forest elephant lives in family groups. Groups observed in the rain forest of Gabon's Lopé National Park between 1984 and 1991 comprised between three and eight individuals. [ 27 ]
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 ...