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Frogloggers t1_j6h1lc2 wrote

Reply to comment by Ok-disaster2022 in TIL there are three species of elephants, not two. African elephants are broken up into 2 species, Forest and Bush. by lightsdevil

> To me, so long as members of each subspecies can produce genetically viable offspring, they're still subspecies.

This definition of a species doesn't really work in practice. There exists species (or in your view populations), let's call them species B, that are able to produce viable offspring with both species A and C. However, species A and C cannot produce viable offspring as the genetic distance is just too much.

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