forest elephants
Rainforest's largest mammals
Forest elephants are a species of elephant native to the rainforests of central and western Africa, smaller than their savanna relatives with straighter tusks and rounder ears adapted to dense vegetation.
They play a crucial role in seed dispersal and forest ecology: Forest elephants create pathways through the jungle that other animals use.
- chimpanzeesIntelligent African great apes
- tropical rainforestHumid equatorial biome with dense vegetation
- herdGrazing animals together
- Congo BasinMajor African river watershed
- endemic speciesLife found nowhere else
family group · seed dispersal · fruit trees · endangered · keystone species · tusks · dung · Cameroon · matriarchal society · wildlife corridors · logging roads · indigenous knowledge · protected area · spiritual beliefs · gentle giants · mud · pygmy · carbon sequestration
- rainforeststropical rainforest, canopy layer, emergent layer, understory, Borneo
- African wildlifeelephant, African elephant, lion, hippo, zebra
- Congo BasinCongo River, Kinshasa, Brazzaville, Cameroon, Gabon
- CongoKinshasa, Congo River, DRC, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo Basin
- Southeast Asian wildlifeorangutan, tigers, Sumatran tiger, orangutans, sun bears
- Congo-BrazzavilleBrazzaville, Congo River, CFA franc