"African bush elephant"@en . "(Blumenbach, 1797)" . "iucn3.1" . "*Elephas africanus" . "The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana) is the larger of the two species of African elephant.Both it and the African forest elephant have usually been classified as a single species, known simply as the African elephant, but recent evidence has seen the forest elephant classified as a distinct species (although this status is not conclusively accepted due to a gradual reduction in elephant size between savanna and forest environments)."@en . "VU" . . . .