The African forest elephant is an elephant species native to humid tropical forests in West Africa and the Congo Basin. It was first described in 1900. With an average shoulder height of 2.16 m, it is
Loxodontacyclotis
A family of African forest elephants in the Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve wetlands, Central African Republic
African forest elephants in a waterhole
Group of African forest elephants digging at a mineral lick
Proboscidea is a taxonomic order of Afrothere paenungulate mammals described by J. Illiger in 1811. It encompasses the elephants and their extinct relatives. Three living species of elephant are curre
African forest elephant
…Endangered (IUCN 3.1) CITES Appendix I Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Infraclass: Placentalia Order: Proboscidea Family: Elephantidae Genus: Loxodonta Species: L. cyclotis Binomial name Loxodonta cyclotis (Matschie, 1900) Range of the African forest elephant…
Skeleton of the American mastodon, Mammut americanum (Mammutidae)