> If African forest elephant and Savannah elephants are separate species?

If African forest elephant and Savannah elephants are separate species?

Posted at: 2014-11-15 
hen how can forest -savanna hybrid elephants occur and they breed

i find elephants in northern Congo (garamba national parks) are forest Savannah hybrid

and they breed

You are correct in believing that species are reproductively isolated and that the savannah and forest elephants have been designated as different species. However, I would question your judgment that the elephants in Garamba National Park are hybrids. How do you know that?

Not being able to interbreed successfully is not what defines things as different species. The term species is usually taken to mean a group which is distinctly different and *in nature* does not interbreed with others of the same genus.

They are actually subspecies. Subspecies interbreed all the time.

then how can forest -savanna hybrid elephants occur and they breed

i find elephants in northern Congo (garamba national parks) are forest Savannah hybrid

and they breed