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African elephant
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Noun1.African elephant - an elephant native to Africa having enormous flapping ears and ivory tusksAfrican elephant - an elephant native to Africa having enormous flapping ears and ivory tusks
elephant - five-toed pachyderm
genus Loxodonta, Loxodonta - a genus of Elephantidae


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The WSPA may concentrate on where animals are kept under inhumane conditions such as zoos or create awareness about mass killings of kangaroos in Australia or elephants in Africa resulting from overpopulation, amputating paws of gorillas in Africa and poaching rhinos for horns and elephants for tusks.
Robbie Marsland, director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, said: "Most people will be shocked to hear that, 20 years after the ban on the international ivory trade, elephants in Africa are still threatened by commercial poaching.
The scientists compared the life spans of the zoo-born elephants with the life spans of thousands of female wild elephants in Africa and Asian elephants that work in logging camps, over approximately the same time period.
 
 
 
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