African Bush Elephant

Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach 1797)

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Loxodonta africana (African Bush Elephant) is a species of mammal in the family Elephantidae. It is listed as vulnerable by IUCN. It is found in the Palearctic and the Afrotropics. It is a browser.

URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/vulnerable
Definition: A taxon is Vulnerable when the best available evidence indicates that it meets any of the criteria A to E for Vulnerable, and it is therefore considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.
Attribution: http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/categories-and-criteria

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URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q106447

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URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Afrotropical
Attribution: Udvardy, M. D. F. (1975). A classification of the biogeographical provinces of the world. IUCN Occasional Paper no. 18. Morges, Switzerland: IUCN

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URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/browsing
Definition: herbivore that eats parts of plants including high-growing shrubs and trees.

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EOL has data for 59 attributes, including:

ecomorphological guild
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/EcomorphologicalGuild
- Definition: organisms that share certain morphological traits due to adaptation to similar environments and ecological roles
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fossorial and/or ground dwelling only
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/groundDwelling
- Definition: An organism that spends most of its time on the ground or underground.
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first appearance
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/FossilFirst
- Definition: The first appearance of this taxon in the fossil record.
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Pleistocene Epoch
- URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Pleistocene
- Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale
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habitat includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
- Definition: The organism inhabits this environment or ecoregion.
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desert
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000179
- Definition: A desert biome is a terrestrial biome which loses more liquid water by evapotranspiration than is supplied by precipitation and includes communities adapted to these conditions.
- Comment: Preliminary definition.
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last appearance
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/FossilLast
- Definition: The last appearance of this taxon in the fossil record.
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Holocene Epoch
- URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Holocene
- Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale
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trophic guild
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/TrophicGuild
- Definition: A group of species that exploit the same food resources, and/or use the same feeding or foraging methods. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild_(ecology)
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browser
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/browsing
- Definition: herbivore that eats parts of plants including high-growing shrubs and trees.
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African Bush Elephant includes 5 children:

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