I assumed every zoo now with African elephants had the bush/savanna species, but (Being a Disney lover, hence my previous question about the park) I watched a video of the safari tour, my favorite ride that I miss right now, and the guide said they were forest elephants. I know at the time of the video baby Stella was there, who I saw back in 2018. So it would be cool if I saw forest elephants and didn't know it. I somewhat suspected it considering Disney's elephants look shorter and "thinner" than most zoo elephants, which is true for forest elephants. If anyone knows Disney better than I do or has knowledge on the history of forest elephants in US zoos, can anyone confirm if DAK actually has forest and not bush elephants?
The last forest elephant in North America died at the Columbus Zoo in the early 1990s. You either misheard what the guide on the video said, or the guide was in error. All of the African elephants in North America are savanna elephants. The only forest elephants outside of Africa are in Japan as of 2020. There is some historical information on forest elephants in zoos here: Are African forest elephants completely gone from zoos?
@DavidBrown is correct, the last one's were in Columbus. Just a matter of interest, is their any photo's African forest elephants on zoochat?
Luke, do an image search in the gallery and several will pop up. There are also several embedded in the old thread that I linked to.
Namely a zoo in the Ivory Coast: https://www.zoochat.com/community/media/categories/abidjan-zoo.1616/ And a collection in Japan: Asa Zoo - ZooChat
