African bush elephant
loxodonta africana latin

Adult elephant (Loxodonta africana) walks slowly past tour vehicle.

The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), of the order Proboscidea, is the largest living land animal.

Adolescent Elephant (Loxodonta africana) strips bark while feeding in mopane woodland.

African Bush Elephant (Loxodonta africana).

The species African Bush Elephant (Loxodonta africana) occurs in several countries of Eastern Africa.

It is considered a subspecies of the African Bush Elephant (Loxodonta africana), a 2010 study said that the two elephants were two different species.

The African Bush Elephant (Loxodonta africana) is the larger of the two species of African elephant.

Mammals include hippopotamus Hippopotamus amphibius, buffalo Syncerus caffer, elephant Loxodonta africana, crocodile Crocodylus sp.

These elephants are smaller than their southern African counterparts and some individuals exhibit the rounded ears, straight tusks and sloping forehead of Loxodonta africana cyclotis, the forest elephant.

There are two distinct species of African elephant: African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) and the African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana).

Traditionally considered to be either a synonym or a subspecies of the African elephant (Loxodonta africana cyclotis), a 2010 paper supports it being a distinct species (Loxodonta cyclotis).

Traditionally, two species of elephants are recognised; the African elephant (Loxodonta africana) of sub-Saharan Africa, and the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) of South and Southeast Asia.

The African elephant (Loxodonta africana) is a very large herbivore having thick, almost hairless skin, a long, flexible, prehensile trunk, upper incisors forming long curved tusks of ivory, and large, fan-shaped ears.

Due to poaching and diseases caused due to introduction of illegal cattle transhumance, elephant (Loxodonta africana) and buffon kob (Kobus kob) populations declined by over 80% each, over a period of 20 years.

In 2001, genetic evidence emerged that the African elephant (Loxodonta africana), once thought to be a single species, was in fact two, as the smaller African forest elephant was in fact a distinct species (Loxodonta cyclotis).

The North African elephant (Loxodonta africana pharaoensis) was a possible subspecies of the African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), or possibly a separate elephant species, that existed in North Africa until becoming extinct in Ancient Roman times.