New species of elephants discovered: How understanding their genome could aid conservation
The African elephants can be classified into those that live in forests and those that roam the savannas and there's no proof of interbreeding between the two.
Elephants – one of the most intelligent creatures on the planet – are cheekier than we could have imagined. Hiding in plain sight, as it turns out, there are more than just Asian and African species of elephants, as genetic analysis has now revealed that African elephants represent two different kinds of species altogether.
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