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The African mammoth (Mammuthus subplanifrons), also known as the South African Mammoth (not to be confused with the closely related extinct Mammuthus africanavus, which is also known as the South African mammoth), is a species of elephant of the genus Mammuthus that originally lived around 5 million years ago during the early Pliocene in South Africa and countries of East Africa, especially Ethiopia, and was once extinct, but has since been brought back from extinction by SciiFii and introduced throughout the modern open woodlands, grasslands, shrublands, and scrublands across South Africa and East Africa to help boost biodiversity. The African mammoth already has some of the unique characteristics of mammoths like the spirally, twisting tusks. It is a rather large mammoth, averaging about 12.1 feet (3.68 metres) tall at the shoulder and weighing about 9 tonnes (8.9 long tons; 9.9 short tons). The African mammoth is a herbivore that mainly feeds on grasses, shrubs, as well as some leaves and fruits, but can occasionally feast on branches in times of hardship. It is a social herd-dwelling animal, with adult females as well as young males and females living together, which are leaded by the matriarch (female leader), but bull male African mammoths live in mostly solitary lives unless it is breeding seasons, when males have musth and males find suitable females to mate with. The conservation status of the African mammoth is Near Threatened due to some habitat loss and poaching, however, thanks to the conservationists, the African mammoth is a protected species and is making a comeback.