Jeheskel Shoshani
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Jeheskel "Hezy" Shoshani was an evolutionary biologist who studied elephants and their relatives for over 35 years.
Jeheskel Shoshani
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In biology, a taxon is a group of one or more populations of an organism, or organisms, as seen by taxonomists to form a biological unit;. Although neither is required, a taxon, once its description h
Jeheskel Shoshani
…published over 168 scientific articles and books on elephants. His research focused primarily on their anatomy and taxonomy, but he also studied other taxa like primates. Notably, he led an extensive dissection of a 46-year-old female Sri Lankan elephant named Iki from 1980 to 1988, coauthored landmark…
African elephants form the genus Loxodonta, a widely accepted taxon.