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  2. Giraffe - Wikipedia

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    Lions, leopards, spotted hyenas, and African wild dogs may prey upon giraffes. Giraffes live in herds of related females and their offspring or bachelor herds of unrelated adult males but are gregarious and may gather in large groups. Males establish social hierarchies through "necking", combat bouts where the neck is used as a weapon.

  3. Northern giraffe - Wikipedia

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    Northern giraffes live in savannahs, shrublands, and woodlands. After numerous local extinctions, Northern giraffes are the least numerous giraffe species, and the most endangered. In East Africa, they are mostly found in Kenya and southwestern Ethiopia, and rarely in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan.

  4. Giraffidae - Wikipedia

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    Giraffes are sociable, whereas okapis live mainly solitary lives. Giraffes temporarily form herds of up to 20 individuals; these herds can be mixed or uniform groups of males and females, young and adults. Okapis are normally seen in mother-offspring pairs, although they occasionally gather around a prime food source.

  5. The Strange Way Giraffes Fight - AOL

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    Giraffes live in stable family groups with older females helping the mothers to care for the young. A group of giraffes is called a tower. While the females live together, males may live alone or ...

  6. Giraffes are up next on the endangered species list, US ... - AOL

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    The three subspecies of northern giraffe officials are proposing to be listed as endangered include the West African, Kordofan and Nubian giraffes, whose populations have plummeted by roughly 77% ...

  7. West African giraffe - Wikipedia

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    West African giraffes near Kouré, Niger. In the mid-1990s there were only 49 in the whole of West Africa. These giraffes were formally protected by the Niger government and have now risen to 600. [11] Conservation efforts since the 1990s have led to a sizable growth in population, though largely limited to the single Dosso herd.

  8. Giraffes need endangered species protection, U.S ... - AOL

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    The vast majority of reticulated giraffes live in Kenya, and their population is estimated at 15,985, according to USFWS. There are around 45,400 Masai giraffes — an amount roughly equivalent to ...

  9. Southern giraffe - Wikipedia

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    The southern giraffes live in the savannahs and woodlands of northern South Africa, Angola, southern Botswana, southern Zimbabwe, Zambia and south-western Mozambique. After local extinctions in various places, the South African giraffes have been reintroduced in many parts of Southern Africa, including in Eswatini. They are common in both ...