The African and the Asian elephants diverged from a common ancestor some 7. 6 million years ago.

The elephants of the genus Loxodonta, known collectively as African elephants, are currently found in 37 countries in Africa.

In Asian elephants, only males have tusks, but both males and females of African elephants have tusks and are usually less hairy than their Asian cousins.

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.

Since then some southern African countries have had their populations of elephants " downlisted " to Appendix Two allowing sale of some stockpiles.

In the ten years preceding a decision in 1989 by CITES to ban international trade in African elephant ivory the population of African elephants declined from 1. 3 million to around 600, 000.

The decision came after several mass slaughters of African elephants, most notably the 2006 Zakouma elephant slaughter in Chad.

Despite arguments prevailing on the ivory trade for the last thirty years through CITES, there is one fact that virtually all informed parties now agree-poaching of African elephants for ivory is now seriously on the increase.

Their social structure was probably the same as that of African and Asian elephants, with females living in herds headed by a matriarch, whilst bulls lived solitary lives or formed loose groups after sexual maturity.

In the summer of 2003, the San Diego Zoological Society and Lowry Park Zoo orchestrated the capture of 11 wild African elephants from the Hlane Royal National Park in Swaziland.

To represent his African conquest, and perhaps to outdo even Bacchus, Pompey had a team of elephants yoked to his triumphal chariot, but they proved too tight a fit for one of the gates en route to the Capitol.

Sub-Saharan Africans had mostly wild mammals, whereas Eurasians chanced to have the most docile large animals on the planet: horses and camels that are easily tamed for human transport ; but their biological relatives zebras and onagers are untameable ; and although African elephants can be tamed, it is very difficult to breed them in captivity ; goats and sheep for hides, clothing, and cheese ; cows for milk ; bullocks for tilling fields and transport ; and benign animals such as pigs and chickens.

In this paper he analyzed skeletal remains of Indian and African elephants as well as mammoth fossils, and a fossil skeleton known at that time as the ' Ohio animal '.

Cuvier's analysis established, for the first time, the fact that African and Indian elephants were different species and that mammoths were not the same species as either African or Indian elephants and therefore must be extinct.

Gowdy's novel The White Bone is written from the perspective of African elephants.

African elephants form a widely-accepted taxon, the genus Loxodonta

Babar and his elephants escort Mina Murray and Allan Quartermain through the African jungle.

The probable answer is that it will do so just as long as Russia can exercise a veto in favor of chaos and until young African nations wake up to the truth that out of false pride they are visiting ruin on Central Africa.

We are just beginning the task of trying to win or maintain the friendship of the new African nations against the ruthless competition of the Communist bloc.

An African knife and battle-ax are at this moment being sharpened by McKinley and Green.

Roughly 26 % are followers of traditional forms of Protestantism ( Congregationals, Methodists, Baptista, Lutherans, Reformed ), but over the last decades there has in addition been a growth of Pentecostal communities and African Initiated Churches.

International and domestic services are maintained by TAAG Angola Airlines, Aeroflot, British Airways, Brussels Airlines, Lufthansa, Air France, Air Namibia, Cubana, Ethiopian Airlines, Emirates, Delta Air Lines, Royal Air Maroc, Iberia, Hainan Airlines, Kenya Airways, South African Airways, TAP Air Portugal and several regional carriers.

Both are members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, the African Union and other multilateral organizations.

Angola-South Africa relations are quite strong as the ruling parties in both nations, the African National Congress in South Africa and the MPLA in Angola, fought together during the Angolan Civil War and South African Border War.

* 1831 – Nat Turner's slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton County, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who are killed in retaliation for the uprising.

Anthony Heilbut, author of The Gospel Sound, states that the " dangers, toils, and snares " of Newton's words are a " universal testimony " of the African American experience.

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 Americans ( also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes ) are citizens or residents of the United States who have total or significant partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Most African Americans are of West and Central African descent and are descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States.

Contributions from these ethnic foods have become as common as traditional " American " fares such as hot dogs, hamburgers, beef steak, which are derived from German cuisine, ( chicken-fried steak, for example, is a variation on German schnitzel ), cherry pie, Coca-Cola, milkshakes, fried chicken ( Fried chicken is of Scottish and African influence ) and so on.

Regional chefs are emerging as localized celebrity chefs with growing broader appeal, such as Peter Merriman ( Hawaii Regional Cuisine ), Jerry Traunfeld, Alan Wong ( Pacific Rim cuisine ), Norman Van Aken ( New World Cuisine-fusion Latin, Caribbean, Asian, African and American ), and Mark Miller ( American Southwest cuisine ).

There are some youth players from Ajax Cape Town that have been drafted into the Eredivisie squad, such as South African international Steven Pienaar ( on loan to Everton ) and Cameroonian international Eyong Enoh.

For example, there are differences between African, East Asian and Indo-racial groups in how they metabolize alcohol.

Prevalent in his and Lagbaja's music are native African harmonies and rhythms, taking different elements and combining, modernizing and improvising upon them.

The westernmost islands of the archipelago ( Corvo and Flores ) are located in the North American Plate, while the remaining islands are located within the boundary that divides the Eurasian and African Plates.

* the southern and southwestern regions, which are the driest of all, are drained by the Molopo river along the South African border and the Nossob river through the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, and are technically part of the basin of the Orange river.

Subsets of Haredi Judaism include: Hasidic Judaism, which is rooted in the Kabbalah and distinguished by reliance on a Rebbe or religious teacher ; and Sephardic Haredi Judaism, which emerged among Sephardic ( Asian and North African ) Jews in Israel.

In North-Eastern Europe, Siberia and certain southern European and North African sites, a " ceramic Mesolithic " can be distinguished between 7000-3850 BCE, Russian archaeologists prefer to describe such pottery-making cultures as Neolithic, even though farming is absent.

The New Zealand accent is distinguished from the Australian one by the presence of " clipped " vowels, slightly resembling South African English.

They are easily distinguished from African Dwarf Frogs because African Clawed Frogs have webbing only on their hind feet while African Dwarf Frogs have webbing on all four feet.

In many tonal African languages, such as most Bantu languages, however, tones are distinguished by their relative level, words are longer, there are fewer minimal tone pairs, and a single tone may be carried by the entire word, rather than a different tone on each syllable.

Somerville today and historically has had an important African American community, a distinguished member of which was Paul Robeson.

Heavily based in soul music, neo soul is distinguished by a less conventional sound than its contemporary R & B counterpart, with incorporated elements ranging from jazz, funk, and hip hop to pop, fusion, and African music.

* Son Jarocho music comes from the Veracruz area, and is distinguished by a strong African influence.

The Corn Crake is sympatric with the African Crake on the wintering grounds, but can be distinguished by its larger size, paler upperparts, tawny upperwing and different underparts pattern.

Encompassing a mix of African American music genres, quiet storm music is distinguished by understated, mellow dynamics and relaxed tempos and rhythms.

It is best distinguished from its many African relatives by its size and froglike croaking breep-breep song.

Candomblé can also be distinguished from Umbanda, a religion founded in the early 20th century by combining African elements with Kardecism ; and from similar African-derived religions such as Quimbanda, Haitian Vodou, Cuban Santería, and Obeah, which developed independently of Candomblé and are virtually unknown in Brazil.

The 9th Division fought in the North African campaign under Major General Leslie Morshead and distinguished itself first at the Battle of Tobruk, where it became the first Allied unit to resist German Blitzkrieg tactics.

Dr. Simon Green Atkins distinguished himself in his home state of North Carolina as an advocate of teacher-training programs for African Americans.

Many of the city's majority African American residents cited Ashe's distinguished place in the modern history of the city as a reason for inclusion, while some residents and other parties rejected it as inappropriate for Monument Avenue, which until 1996 only contained statues of men with a relationship to the Confederate States of America.

The Corn Crake is sympatric with the African Crake on its wintering grounds, but can be distinguished by its larger size, paler upperparts, chestnut-coloured patch on the upperwing and different underparts pattern.

Kenyan philosopher Henry Odera Oruka has distinguished what he calls four trends in modern African philosophy: ethnophilosophy, philosophical sagacity, nationalistic – ideological philosophy, and professional philosophy.

Daystar University ’ s Vision is to be a distinguished, Christ-Centered, African Institution of Higher learning for the Transformation of Church and Society.

District Six also contributed mightily to the distinguished history of South African jazz.

( NB: The ACHPR should be distinguished from the African Union Commission, as the OAU Secretariat has been renamed since the creation of the African Union.

The sweet-natured and honest Brother looks like an ordinary African American man, distinguished only by his being mute and-although other characters in the film never see them-his feet each have three large toes.