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 67 attributes, including:

body mass
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/VT_0001259
- Definition: The amount of matter in the body of an organism.
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3940034 g
eats
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002470
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Faidherbia albida (Delile) A. Chev.
geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region
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Namibia
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/3355338
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parental care
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0060746
- Definition: A reproductive behavior in which a parent cares for and rears offspring.
- Comment: [database_cross_reference: GOC:dph]
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No Paternal Care
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/noPaternalCare
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systolic blood pressure
- URI: http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/SNOMEDCT/271649006
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128 mm Hg

African Bush Elephant includes 5 children:

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