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These look interesting: straight tusks and roundish ears. Anyone think they might be cyclotis?

IanRRobinson said:

These look interesting: straight tusks and roundish ears. Anyone think they might be cyclotis?

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Achtaum, Mina, and Kani are African bush elephants born in the Wild, Achtaum is 14 years old Mina is 11 and Kani is 17

I would have to say the three elephants do resemble L. Cyclotis rather than L. Africana... The round ears and tusks are the give away. Upon further research I found they originated in Togo... Which to my knowledge is not a range country of savanna elephants, but is incredibly close to if not a part of the forest elephant range.

On elephant.se they are listed as African bush but on elefanten-fotolexikon they are listed as forest.
Petra Prager – Elefanten-Fotolexikon

making them half of the entire captive population (out of range countries) the other 1,2 being in Japan.

someone known the origin place of these elephants?

They are Loxodonta cyclotis.