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Deadliest animals as of 2016 [1] This is a list of the deadliest animals to humans worldwide, measured by the number of humans killed per year. Different lists have varying criteria and definitions, so lists from different sources disagree and can be contentious.
Giraffes are peaceful animals and rarely harm humans. They are not aggressive by nature, and like the giraffe in this video, they main defense mechanism is using their strong legs to kick.
The Tugen people of modern Kenya used the giraffe to depict their god Mda. [127] The Egyptians gave the giraffe its own hieroglyph; 'sr' in Old Egyptian and 'mmy' in later periods. [124]: 49 How the giraffe got its height has been the subject of various African folktales. [10] Giraffes have a presence in modern Western culture.
The Masai giraffe (Giraffa tippelskirchi [2]), also spelled Maasai giraffe, and sometimes called the Kilimanjaro giraffe, is a species or subspecies of giraffe. It is native to East Africa. The Masai giraffe can be found in central and southern Kenya and in Tanzania. It has distinctive jagged, irregular leaf-like blotches that extend from the ...
The Tallest Living Animal. Giraffes are by far the tallest animal in the world. They are six feet tall at birth and can grow between 14 and 19 feet tall. This puts them well over the second ...
Giraffe populations are in trouble — and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday proposed listing three subspecies of the tall animals as endangered and two species as threatened under ...
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).
There are now only about 80,000 of the animals. By RYAN GORMAN African giraffes are in danger of becoming extinct. Hunting and poaching have decimated the continent's giraffe population by about ...