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Particularly stable giraffe groups are those made of mothers and their young, [90] which can last weeks or months. [98] Young males also form groups and will engage in playfights. However, as they get older, males become more solitary but may also associate in pairs or with female groups.
These fights can get violent and even involve cutting each other with the use of sharp horn-like pairs of ossicones on the top of their heads. The video above shows the fascinating way male ...
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).
Thornicroft's giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis thornicrofti), also known as the Rhodesian giraffe or Luangwa giraffe, is a subspecies of giraffe. It is sometimes considered a species in its own right (as Giraffa thornicrofti ) [ 2 ] or a subspecies of the Masai giraffe (as Giraffa tippelskirchi thornicrofti ).
Giraffes can be pregnant for 15 months — almost twice the length of human. But that allows giraffe newborns to be born in the "superman" position; front legs and head first, followed by the rest ...
Gemina (July 16, 1986 – January 9, 2008) (pronounced Jeh-MEE-nah) [1] was a 12-foot-tall (3.7 m) Baringo giraffe [2] who lived in the Santa Barbara Zoo in Santa Barbara, California. [2] She became notable for the peculiar deformity in her neck , which was bent by almost ninety degrees between her C3 and C4 vertebrae .
Giraffe babies are born big, really big! At birth, they weigh between 110-150 pounds and stand at 6 feet tall. They are born with their eyes open and come out feet first.
The current IUCN taxonomic scheme lists one species of giraffe with the name G. camelopardalis and nine subspecies. [1] [7] A 2021 whole genome sequencing study suggests the northern giraffe as a separate species, and postulates the existence of three distinct subspecies, [8] and more recently, one extinct subspecies.