African forest elephant: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Loxodonta cyclotis

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Three forest elephants stand together on grassy ground with dense rainforest vegetation in the background at Loango National Park, Gabon.

A flowchart illustrating the IUCN Red List categories for species conservation status, from not evaluated and least concern to extinct, with a red arrow showing increasing risk of extinction from left to right.

A timeline diagram shows the evolutionary history of modern elephants, depicting Gomphotherium as an ancient ancestor branching into the woolly mammoth, American mastodon, Asian elephant, African savanna elephant, and African forest elephant, with illustrations of each species and labeled time periods from the Eocene to the present.

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