Behavioural and dietary similarities of elephants and apes in the Lopé Reserve, Gabon: Should forest elephants be re-classified as apes?

Citation

White L, Tutin CEG & Fernandez M (1994) Behavioural and dietary similarities of elephants and apes in the Lopé Reserve, Gabon: Should forest elephants be re-classified as apes?. In: Thierry B, Anderson J, Roeder J & Herrenschmidt N (eds.) Current Primatology Volume 1: Ecology and Evolution. Current primatology. Strasbourg, France: Universite Louis Pasteur, pp. 19-27.

Abstract
Initially delivered at the 24th Congress of the International Primatological Society, held in Strasbourg, 16-21 August 1992 this paper discusses the considerable overlap in the diets of lowland gorilla and forest elephants in Lope Game Reserve. Elephant accounted for 25 to 82% of the biomass of large mammals in study five sites within the forest. The paper compares the elephant responses to researchers, their social organization, and the their diet to that of gorilla and chimpanzees in the Reserve.