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Elephant Subspecies
There is a saying that an elephant never forgets. With the quantity of brain mass they contain within their gargantuan heads, this saying cannot be far from the truth; elephants truly are quite intelligent mammals. This brain capacity is perhaps quite evident in the modern elephant's ancestry, where millions of years ago, the leviathan mammoths roamed the earth. These days, however, there barely any room for such creatures to live. Still, the remaining elephant species can be found roaming the vast lands of Africa and Asia. In fact, two of them -- the African Bush Elephant and the Indian Elephant -- are perhaps the closest in ancestry to the mammoth and most prominent of the elephant subspecies located around the Eastern hemisphere.
The African Bush Elephant (sometimes called the African Elephant or African Savanna Elephant), Loxodonta africana, is the larger of two African subspecies of elephants. Like its smaller sister subspecies the African Forest Elephant, Loxodonta africana cyclotis,...
Both female and male Bush Elephants possess the tusks, which are prized by poachers and hunters within the African wilderness. This hunting for ivory tusks and the elephants' thick hides might be the most major of the threats to the African Bush Elephant; as for predators, well, it would take something much bigger than an elephant to take on a fully-grown Bush Elephant. The African Bush Elephant has been said to communicate through sound and seismic vibrations, oftentimes females in heat exude a particular noise that can travel from miles around, enabling solitary males into approaching them for mating. Bush Elephants tend to live and feed upon foliage within forests, semi-deserts, and grasslands.
The Indian Elephant, Elephas maximus indicus, is one of three recognized subspecies of Asian elephants. Like their African relatives, the female Indian Elephants travel in herds with their young; leading them…
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