Loxodonta africana

Loxodonta africana est species elephantum omnium maxima, in Africa tantum vivens, minus minusque frequens. In Uganda, Kenia, Tanzania, Botsuana, Zimbabua, Namibia, Zambia, Angolia aliisque civitatibus reperitur, magna parte in reservatis habitans sed ubique ab hominibus propter ebur venata.

Loxodonta africana mas in Serengeti

Animalia — Chordata

Subphylum : Vertebrata
Classis : Mammalia
Infraclassis : Placentalia
Superordo : Afrotheria
Ordo : Proboscidea
Familia : Elephantidae
Genus : Loxodonta
Species : L. africana

Loxodonta africana
Blumenbach, 1797

Conservationis status

VU

Damno obiecta (IUCN 3.1)

Synonyma

Loxodonta angolensis Frade, 1928

Loxodonta berbericus Seurat, 1930
Loxodonta capensis (G. Cuvier, 1798)
Loxodonta cavendishi (Lydekker, 1907)
Loxodonta cornaliae (Aradas, 1870)
Loxodonta hannibali (Deraniyagala, 1953)
Loxodonta knochenhaueri (Matschie, 1900)
Loxodonta mocambicus (Frade, 1924)
Loxodonta orleansi (Lydekker, 1907)
Loxodonta oxyotis Matschie, 1900
Loxodonta peeli (Lydekker, 1907)
Loxodonta pharaohensis Deraniyagala, 1948
Loxodonta rothschildi (Lydekker, 1907)
Loxodonta selousi (Lydekker, 1907)
Loxodonta toxotis (Lydekker, 1907)
Loxodonta typicus Blumenbach, 1797

Loxodonta zukowskyi Strand, 1924

Territorium

Bibliographia recensere

Sceletum Loxodontae africanae

Yihew Biru, Afework Bekele, "Food habits of African elephant (Loxodonta Africana) in Babile Elephant Sanctuary, Ethiopia" in Tropical Ecology vol. 53 (2012)
Phyllis C. Lee, Cynthia J Moss, "Early maternal investment in male and female African elephant calves" in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology vol. 18 (1986) pp. 353-361
R. John Power, R. X. Shem Compion, "Lion Predation on Elephants in the Savuti, Chobe National Park, Botswana" in African Zoology vol. 44 (2009) pp. 36-44
Bruce Schulte, "Social structure and helping behavior in captive elephants" in Zoo Biology vol. 19 (2000) pp. 447–459
S. K. Wasser et al., "Genetic assignment of large seizures of elephant ivory reveals Africa’s major poaching hotspots" in Science vol. 349 (2015) pp. 84–87
Phoebe Weston, "Hundreds of elephants dead in mysterious mass die-off" in The Guardian (1 Iulii 2020)

Nexus externi recensere

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