African Bush Elephant

Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach 1797)

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Loxodonta africana (African Bush Elephant) is a species of Mammalia in the family Synapsida. 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.
Source: http://apiv3.iucnredlist.org/api/v3/website/Loxodonta%20africana

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

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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 70 attributes, including:

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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terrestrial habitat
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002009
- Definition: A habitat that is on or at the boundary of the surface of the Earth.
- Comment: Ontology Description: http://environmentontology.org/ Ontology Source: http://envo.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/envo/envo.owl
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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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motility
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33596
- Definition: ability to move spontaneously and actively, consuming energy in the process
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actively mobile
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/activelyMobile
- Definition: Organisms that move habitually, of their own volition.
- Attribution: http://paleodb.org/public/tips/ecology_tips.html
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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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