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Science 24 August 2001:
Vol. 293. no. 5534, p. 1414
DOI: 10.1126/science.293.5534.1414a
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ECOLOGY:
African Elephant Species Splits in Two

Gretchen Vogel

As the largest land mammal, elephants should be hard to miss. But scientists have apparently overlooked an entire species. On page 1473, a team of geneticists and elephant experts describe new molecular evidence showing that forest- and savanna-dwelling elephants, currently lumped together in a single species called Loxodonta africana, each merits its own species name.

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