African bush elephant

The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana)^[3] is the mair muckle o the twa species o African elephant.

African bush elephant[1]
A female African bush elephant, Loxodonta africana, in Mikumi National Park, Tanzania
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[2]
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Cless:	Mammalia
Order:	Proboscidea
Faimily:	Elephantidae
Genus:	Loxodonta
Species:	L. africana
Binomial name
Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach, 1797)
Distribution of Loxodonta (2007)
Synonyms
Elephas africanus Blumenbach, 1797

Baith it an the African forest elephant hae in the past been classifee'd as a single species, kent simply as the African elephant, but recent preliminar evidence haes seen the forest elephant classifee'd as a distinct species (awtho this status is no conclusively acceptit due tae concerns ower conservation strategies till the reclessification is formalisit).^[2]