1.   He has tracked the vehicle-shy elephants of the Congo and the hard-to-find forest elephants in the Central African Republic.

2.   In contrast, the forest elephants have a lot of genetic variability, indicating that separate forest groups rarely wander and intermingle.

3.   Big game species like forest elephants have all but disappeared and smaller animals like monkeys and antelope are declining.

4.   Naturalists have long noted the difference between the rarely seen forest elephant and the grassland, or savanna, elephant in Africa.

5.   The African forest elephant, known as Loxodonta cyclotis, is slightly smaller and has rounded ears.

6.   The forest elephant lives in densely wooded areas of central west Africa.

7.   The only African forest elephant in captivity is in a zoo in Paris.