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The African savanna elephant (loxodonta africana) is now listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List. The IUCN Red List now includes 134,425 species of which 37,480 are threatened with extinction.

mammoth, (genus Mammuthus), any member of an extinct group of elephants found as fossils in Pleistocene deposits over every continent except Australia and South America and in early Holocene deposits of North America. (The Pleistocene Epoch began 2.6 million years ago and ended 11,700 years ago.

ing to the WWF, there are approximately 415,000 African elephants left in the world. There are around 40,000 to 50,000 Asian elephants left. As previously stated, the ivory trade, habitat loss, poaching and elephant-human conflict pose threats to elephant populations.

The easiest way to distinguish African elephants from Asian elephants is to look at the ears. African elephants have much larger ears that look sort of like the continent of Africa, while Asian elephants have smaller, round ears.

There are two species of African elephants—the savanna (or bush) elephant and the forest elephant. Savanna elephants are larger than forest elephants, and their tusks curve outwards.

There are three species of elephant: African Savanna (Bush), African Forest and Asian. The ears of African elephants are much larger than their cousins and are described as being shaped like the African continent, whereas the ears of Asian elephants are shaped like the Indian subcontinent.

The Zulu, Tswana and Tsonga names for the elephant all mean 'the forceful one', 'the unstoppable one'. In Zulu the name for an elephant is indlovu, from the verb dlovu, which means to 'crash through', 'to pierce savagely'. The Tswana and Sotho word for elephant, tlou, and the Tsonga word njovu also carry this meaning.