A few forest elephants still live in the province, as well.
Also found are snakes, and very small populations of forest elephants and leopards.
Local wildlife includes populations of Western lowland gorilla and forest elephants.
The animal used was the North African forest elephant which would become extinct from over-exploitation.
At first thought to be a mammoth, it later turned out on further analysis, specifically of the teeth, to be a young forest elephant.
The country is noted for its population of forest elephants and western lowland gorillas.
They are probably forest elephants whose small size is due to the environmental conditions.
A 2010 study further supported African savannah and forest elephants' status as separate species.
African forest elephants had a total loss of 43%.
And he is worried about the fate of the park's forest elephants.