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  2. Giraffe - Wikipedia

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    Comparisons between giraffes and their ancient relatives suggest vertebrae close to the skull lengthened earlier, followed by lengthening of vertebrae further down. [8] One early giraffid ancestor was Canthumeryx , which has been dated variously to have lived 25 to 20 million years ago , 17–15 mya or 18–14.3 mya and whose deposits have been ...

  3. The Strange Way Giraffes Fight - AOL

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    Amazingly, researchers noted this happens time after time and no giraffe ever tried to cheat. The Tallest Living Animal. Giraffes are by far the tallest animal in the world. They are six feet tall ...

  4. List of monotremes and marsupials - Wikipedia

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    The class Mammalia is divided into two subclasses based on reproductive techniques: egg-laying mammals (yinotherians or monotremes - see also Australosphenida), and mammals which give live birth . The latter subclass is divided into two infraclasses: pouched mammals ( metatherians or marsupials ), and placental mammals ( eutherians , for which ...

  5. Wikipedia : Featured article candidates/Giraffe/archive4

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    No way! FAs are supposed to be our best articles. A little bit more effort on your side is requested. When do giraffes sleep standing and when lying? I am pretty sure you can phrase the sentence as "Giraffes can sleep standing but need to lie down, curled up and with their head resting on their rump or hind legs, to enter REM sleep."

  6. Poachers have African giraffes on the verge of extinction - AOL

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    African giraffes are in danger of becoming extinct. Hunting and poaching have decimated the continent's giraffe population by about 40 percent, according to one estimate. There are now only about ...

  7. US moves to protect giraffes, proposing crack down on body ...

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    The Biden administration has proposed new protections for giraffes, saying it would crack down on imports containing giraffe body parts. If finalized, a new proposal would require permits to ...

  8. South African giraffe - Wikipedia

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    Two bull giraffes drinking. Their mostly convex spots with irregular incisions are typical of the South African subspecies. The South African giraffe has dark, somewhat rounded patches "with some fine projections" on a tawny background colour. The spots extend down the legs and get smaller. The median lump of males is less developed. [5]: 52

  9. Giraffes Need Protections of Endangered Species Act After ...

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    The number of giraffes has decreased by nearly 30% since the 1980s, per the Giraffe Conservation Foundation Giraffes Need Protections of Endangered Species Act After Declining Numbers, U.S ...