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Published online 24 August 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010830-1
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Genes reveal jumbo schism
Elephants from Africa's plains and forest might be two different species.
There are two species of elephant - African and Asian - right? Wrong, say researchers studying elephants' DNA: Africa contains two species, one on the savannah, the other in the forests.
The species split shows that a single pan-African elephant conservation strategy would be misguided, say its advocates.
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