#0215 · 🦊 mammals
African Savanna Elephant
🇳🇱 Savanneolifant ·Loxodonta africana
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © dhfischer · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Markus Lilje · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 3. © Joshua Rains · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © eslone · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Gertraud Seiser · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © eslone · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Kimberly Brown-Azzarello · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © copper · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Jean-Paul Boerekamps · CC0
- 10. © Bill Crins · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The African bush elephant ( Loxodonta africana ), also known as the African savanna elephant , is the larger of the two species of African elephants. These elephants were previously regarded as the same species, but the African forest elephant has been reclassified as L. cyclotis .
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 31,588 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in 1797 (229 years ago).
- Listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
fact sheet
- English
- African Savanna Elephant
- Nederlands
- Savanneolifant
- scientific name
- Loxodonta africana
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Proboscidea
- family
- Elephantidae
- IUCN Red List
- EN · endangered
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 31,588
- GBIF records in NL
- 3
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1797 by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
IUCN in Dutch: bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Elephantidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 43694, Wikidata Q36557, GBIF 2435350, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.