During the Mau Mau Uprising in 1952, the poisonous latex of the African milk bush was used to kill cattle.

Three living species of elephant are recognized: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant and the Indian or Asian elephant ; although some group the two African species into one and some researchers also postulate the existence of a fourth species in West Africa.

Namibia's Defence Force comprises two of the former enemies in a 23-year bush war: the Peoples Liberation Army of Namibia ( PLAN ) and South West African Territorial Force ( SWATF ).

It shares its range with many other herbivores, such as the gemsbok, African bush elephant, blue wildebeest, plains zebra, and blesbok.

In both variety and abundance, the bush babies are the one most successful primitive primates in Africa, according to the African Wildlife Foundation.

African bush elephant ( Loxodonta africana )

There are two distinct species of African elephant: African forest elephant ( Loxodonta cyclotis ) and the African bush elephant ( Loxodonta africana ).

The lion and African bush elephant are classified as Endangered.

The African bush elephant, Earth's largest living land animal

The African bush elephant ( Loxodonta africana ) has a shoulder height of up to and weighs up to 13 tons.

The most well known examples are members of the genus Echis ( saw-scales vipers ), although those of the genus Cerastes ( North African desert vipers ) and at least one bush viper species, Atheris desaixi, are known to do this as well.

During these “ bush meetings ,” worshipers were free to engage in African religious rituals such as spiritual possession, speaking in tongues and shuffling in counterclockwise ring shouts to communal shouts and chants.

* Pagoola ( Kelly Phunt ): A stubborn African bush elephant who never trusts humans or human culture.

KrahnMask | Mask from the Krahn peoples currently on exhibit at the National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC. According to the Wee of Côte d ' Ivoire, it is also believed that the natural world is made up of spirits, referred to as “ bush spirits .” These spirits are part of the world untouched by man, and the Wee believe that keeping these spirits appeased is vital to the health of the tribe.

Differences include the African forest elephant's long, narrow mandible ( the African bush elephant's is short and wide ), its rounded ears ( an African bush elephant's ears are more pointed ), straighter and downward tusks, considerably smaller size, and number of toenails.

The more humid regions have a richer vegetation ; dense forest where the rainfall is greatest and variations of temperature least, conditions found chiefly on the tropical coasts, and in the west African equatorial basin with its extension towards the upper Nile ; and savanna interspersed with trees on the greater part of the plateaus, passing as the desert regions are approached into a scrub vegetation consisting of thorny acacias, etc.

African elephants have traditionally been classified as a single species comprising two distinct subspecies, namely the savanna elephant ( Loxodonta africana africana ) and the forest elephant ( Loxodonta africana cyclotis ), but recent DNA analysis suggests that these may actually constitute distinct species.

East Africa displays Cape buffalo, Southern white rhinoceros, Ugandan giraffe, several other savanna species, and a lagoon with East African Crowned Crane The North Africa exhibit represents the Sahel and Sahara and houses scimitar-horned oryx, Barbary stag, red-fronted gazelle, and Ankole cattle.

Sable Antelope bull among trees in African savanna

Grassland vegetation can vary in height from very short, as in chalk where the vegetation may be less than high, to quite tall, as in the case of North American tallgrass prairie, South American grasslands and African savanna.

Some of the world's largest expanses of grassland are found in African savanna, and these are maintained by wild herbivores as well as by nomadic pastoralists and their cattle, sheep or goats.

While grasslands in general support diverse wildlife, given the lack of hiding places for predators, the African savanna regions support a much greater diversity in wildlife than do temperate grasslands.

In the African savanna, the larger herbivores, especially the elephants, shape their environment.

Formerly considered either a synonym or a subspecies of the African savanna elephant ( Loxodonta africana ), a 2010 study established that the two are distinct species.

* West African ( Diceros bicornis longipes ) once lived across the savanna belt in western Africa.

The player can enter a " World Championship " mode consisting of three stages: ( Desert ( which resembles African savanna ), Forest ( which resembles South American forests ) and Mountain ( which partly resembles Monaco and Corsica ) where their finishing position at the end of one course is carried through to the starting position of the next course.

Between AD 700 to 1600, cities in the West African savanna emerged from the trans-Saharan trade.

Cape Verde-type hurricanes typically develop from tropical waves which form in the African savanna during the wet season, then move into the African steppes.

Previous genetic studies of African savanna ungulates revealed the presence of a long-standing Pleistocene refugium in east and South Africa, which also includes the giant eland.

Coca Cola's man walking through an African savanna in the middle of the night.

The " Watani Grasslands " mimic the great savanna of Africa and are home to rhinos, African elephants, Thomson's gazelle, gemsbok, waterbucks, ostriches, and greater kudu.

It gives guests the opportunity to view grazing wildlife outside their rooms and public areas in the resort within proximity of the animals, conveying the feeling of being in an African savanna.

* Roan Antelope, an African savanna antelope

Three additional African hoofed stock exhibits followed in 1985, and two new exhibits were opened in the African savanna section in 1986.

The Akie are one of the last actual hunter-gatherers left on the African savanna.

I Shall Be There ( Video ) The video had a very ' African ' feel to it and featured two different scenes, a jungle scene with the girls sporting appropriate clothing, and a ' savanna ' theme which was darker and had the girls dressed in more conservative and earthy-toned coloured outfits.

The $ 32. 5 million habitat is the first in North America, as well as one of the first on the planet, to combine a variety of large species in a single exhibit in order to re-create the landscape of the African savanna.

He even hunted elephant, although the Asian elephant is not quite as ferocious as his African cousin.

The African elephant ( Loxodonta africana ) is currently split-listed, with all populations except those of Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe listed in Appendix I.

), tigers ( Panthera tigris subspecies ), Asiatic lion ( Panthera leo persica ), leopards ( Panthera pardus ), Jaguar ( Panthera onca ), Cheetah ( Acinonyx jubatus ), Asian elephant ( Elephas maximus ), some populations of African Elephant ( Loxodonta africana ), the dugong and manatees ( Sirenia ), and all Rhinoceros species ( except some Southern African subspecies populations ).

General limitations about the structure and philosophy of CITES include: by design and intent it focuses on trade at the species level and does not address habitat loss, ecosystem approaches to conservation, or poverty ; it seeks to prevent unsustainable use rather than promote sustainable use ( which generally conflicts with the Convention on Biological Diversity ), although this has been changing ( see Nile Crocodile, African elephant, South African white rhino case studies in Hutton and Dickinson 2000 ).

On 15 July 2008, the Committee that oversees the administration of the convention between meetings of all the Parties granted China and Japan permission to import elephant ivory from four African government stockpiles, the ivory being sold at a single auction in each country.

African elephant skeleton

The African elephant genus contains two living species ; whereas the Asian elephant species is the only surviving member of the Asian elephant genus, but can be divided into four subspecies.