Adult African Bush Elephant, Serengeti, Tanzania
The current population of Elephants in the Serengeti is ~2,100, recovering from a dark period of poaching in the 80s and 90s (source: http://www.serengeti.org/bigfive_elephant.html).
The African bush elephant is the larger of the two species of African elephant. Both it and the African forest elephant have usually been classified as a single species, known simply as the African elephant, but recent evidence has seen the forest elephant classified as a distinct species . Some authorities still consider the currently available evidence as insufficient for splitting African elephants into two species.
Similar species: Elephants
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Uploaded Dec 28, 2013. Captured Sep 2, 2013 16:02.
