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The southern giraffe (Giraffa giraffa), also known as two-horned giraffe, [1] is a species of giraffe native to Southern Africa. [2] However, the IUCN currently recognizes only one species of giraffe with nine subspecies. [3] [4]
The northern giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis), also known as three-horned giraffe, [2] is the type species of giraffe, G. camelopardalis, and is native to North Africa, although alternative taxonomic hypotheses have proposed the northern giraffe as a separate species. [3] [1]
The Giraffidae are a family of ruminant artiodactyl mammals that share a recent common ancestor with deer and bovids.This family, once a diverse group spread throughout Eurasia and Africa, presently comprises only two extant genera, the giraffe (between one and eight, usually four, species of Giraffa, depending on taxonomic interpretation) and the okapi (the only known species of Okapia).
Giraffe necks do more than help them reach high leaves in trees. They can keep a lookout for predators, but there is another reason they may have such long necks.
The giraffe is one of only two living genera of the family Giraffidae in the order Artiodactyla, the other being the okapi. [6] They are ruminants of the clade Pecora , along with Antilocapridae ( pronghorns ), Cervidae (deer), Bovidae (cattle, antelope, goats and sheep) and Moschidae (musk deer).
The birth of the spotless giraffe comes after the loss of two rare all-white giraffes in 2020 at the Ishaqbini Hirola Community Conservancy in Ijara, Garissa County. The all-white giraffes had ...
The male Masai giraffe, born to parents Kianga and Baridi on Friday, is the first calf to be born at the zoo since 2012. It stood at 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighed 160 pounds at birth, the zoo ...
Giraffe ossicones consist of a highly vascularized and innervated bone core covered with similarly vascularized and innervated skin. [1] They are attached to the skull with vascularized, innervated connective tissue. [1] Ossicones are formed at late gestation, but in early development they are not bony and not fused to the skull yet.