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 ...

But African savannah ... Save the Elephants and its partners over a 15-year period. Using Google Earth Engine, a satellite imagery computing platform, they looked at the vegetation, tree cover ...

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, ...

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 ...

Genetic researchers may have resolved a long-standing dispute by proving there are two species of African elephant. Savannah and forest elephants have been separated for at least three million ...

which elephants often raid. The IUCN lists African savannah elephant populations as vulnerable. Both male and female African savannahs have tusks and are therefore targeted by hunters.

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 ...