Forest elephants are a rare subspecies of African elephant that are most often found in the rainforests of west and central Africa. They are smaller than Savanna elephants, with oval-shaped ears and straighter, pointier tusks. They are most often found in countries that have large blocks of forest, such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Cameroon and Central African Republic, Ghana, and Liberia. As they are usually found in dense forest habitat, traditional counting methods are not usually possible. Instead, their population is usually estimated via "dung counts" - that is, an analysis based on the density and distribution of their feces.