African bush elephant
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The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana)[3] is the mair muckle o the twa species o African elephant.
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| African bush elephant[1] | |
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| A female African bush elephant, Loxodonta africana, in Mikumi National Park, Tanzania | |
Conservation status | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Cless: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Proboscidea |
| Faimily: | Elephantidae |
| Genus: | Loxodonta |
| Species: | L. africana |
| Binomial name | |
| Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach, 1797) | |
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| Distribution of Loxodonta (2007) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Baith it an the African forest elephant hae in the past been classifee'd as a single species, kent simply as the African elephant, but recent preliminar evidence haes seen the forest elephant classifee'd as a distinct species (awtho this status is no conclusively acceptit due tae concerns ower conservation strategies till the reclessification is formalisit).[2]
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