The ancestral haplotypes identified by the minimum spanning tree to be ... out in the western African region, our results nevertheless clearly indicate that the savannah elephants have regionally ...

Wild elephants ... evolutionary tree. Raviv suspects Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) may also show signs of self-domestication, but genome data was only available for African elephants at ...

Subsequent studies have confirmed this, as does the new research. “We’ve had really good genetic evidence since the year 2001 that forest and savannah elephants in Africa are two different species, ...

The debate over whether the African elephant is one or two species has been going on for about a decade. Weighing in at six or seven tonnes, the much larger elephants found on savannah are about ...

Africa is home to about 410,000 savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana), most of them living in southern Africa. Over 290,000 elephants (70%) are spread across 103 protected areas which vary in ...

Turkalo /PA The population of African forest elephants fell by more than 86 per cent over 31 years, while the population of African savannah elephants decreased by at least 60 per cent over 50 years.