
Jungle box

The African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is a forest-dwelling species of elephant found in the Congo Basin. It is smallest of the three exact species of elephant, but still one of the largest living terristrial animals. The African forest elephant and African bush elephant (L. africana) were conciderd to be one species until one generic studies indicated that they separated an estimated 2-7 million years ago. Due to a smaller birth rate, the forest elephant takes longer to recover from poaching, witch caused by it's population to fall by 65% from 2002 to 2014. Generly, these forest-dwelling elephants are smaller and darker than their savanna relatives, the bush elephants. The species normally has five toenails on the forefoot like the Asian elephant, but unlike the African bush elephant witch normally has four toes on the front foot and three on the hind foot. They also protect themselves from the sun by using sand.