Two Types of Elephants
by Researchers said on Tuesday that there are two types of elephants in Africa, not one type thus confirming suspicions raised by a clear difference in form between the elephants on the African continent.
And research groups from Harvard and the University of Illinois and the University of York in Britain, was able to using the tools of tracking genetic show that contrary to the thought of scientists for a long time that the two of the same type, the elephant savannah African elephant forest and African smaller share kinship is direct and live separated from each other since the two million to seven million years.
Alfred Roca at the University of Illinois, who participated in the study, published in the journal Public Library of Science “What probability our study is that the elephants, forest and savannah relationship with some very remote and not just the subtypes, or the number of one type.”
Research groups compared the genetic code of modern elephants from Africa and Asia, with DNA is taken from the two types are Mnkarzin Mammoth coated wool and U.S Almastodon..
, ” David Reich of Harvard Medical School in Boston, who participated in the study, said in a statement” surprising results is that the savannah and forest elephants of Africa – which some people argued that it is one of the same type – different from each other, such as different Asian elephants for Mammoth. ”
Forest elephants and savannah African elephants different from each lot in terms of size. The savannah elephant weight almost twice as much as the forest elephant, which ranges from six to seven tons and a length of about 3.5 meters at the shoulder which increases the length of the elephant forest about one meter.
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