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They are known for this; [|African elephants care for wounded individuals.] Name of organism both common and scientific. The name of this animal is the African Elephant. That is the common name for this animal, the scientific name for the African Elephant is called Loxodonta africana. They normaly eat off of Grasses, leaves, bamboo, bark, roots. They also are known for stealing crops from the framers such as banana and sugarcane. The African Elephant is a herbivore.
 * [[image:African_Elephant.jpeg width="143" height="173" align="left"]]African Elephant **

Where the species is found (geographical location). The [|African Elephant] is manily founed in Africa. Some areas that you can find these big animals in the following 37 countries. South of the Sahara Desert. [|imgurl=http://www.hedweb.com/elebabtl.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.hedweb.com/elebabtl.htm&usg=__LTZQ2rJpAiYnuTfTWeMGq4CvdzY=&h=313&w=463&sz=37&hl=en&start=36&um=1&tbnid=yWk0U2WH6whytM:&tbnh=87&tbnw=128&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dafrican%2Bsavannah%26ndsp%3D21%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D21%26um%3D1][|South of the Sahara Desert]

Current status of the organism – threatened, endangered, or critically endangered. The African elephant currnet status is; endangered species.They got put on this in 1989 They are very close to being endanered. They are heading this way because people kill them and get a hold of their tusks. Once they have the tusks they sell them for money.

 What impacts caused the decline of this species?  The main causes of the decline of the African Elephants are, people killing them and knocking down their main food. Then people building on their home lands and getting lost from their groups. They have to stay in groups so they can be happy. If they are alone they get lonely and can die unhappy.

Timeline of the species decline (how long has it been threatened, endangered, l http://elephant.elehost.com/About_Elephants/Stories/Evolution/evolution.htm 

Conservation efforts / organizations working on the problem. The groups that are trying to help and protecting are the NWF. You can adot an Elephant so it won't get killed or hurt by humans that hunt Elephants

Other websites that I liked were: http://www.ifaw.org/Publications/Program_Publications/Elephants/asset_upload_file24_12052.pdf