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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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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 ...